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Not fleas but humans spread ‘Back Death’ in Medieval London

By Ernest Dempsey

London - New archaeological and forensic evidence suggests that the great plague epidemic of 14th-Century London was airborne and spread via coughing and sneezing of people, not by flea bites.

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