Good question. I went to look it up, I probably read that about 10 years ago, and I can't find it now. There are quite a few stories linking the Black Death with current health conditions.
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I have low blood pressure and a hyperactive immune system so I guess I’m personally glad that you can’t find the low pressure link! I never got Covid despite working in a high risk environment pre-vaccine.
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This makes me think that it was a theory that has since changed, as more data has been acquired.
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Thank you for doing further research and admitting you might be wrong in this case. However, the concept that a normally maladaptive trait can become more common in certain populations due to other pressure and then be propagated in descendants has been shown to have occurred.
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See: sickle cell trait and malaria www.nature.com/scitable/top...
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Thanks for providing some source material. The Catholic Church did a lot to spread the disease by having Europeans kill cats because they were 'demonic' and associated with witches. They complied and the rat population exploded leading to millions more deaths.
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More people have died in the name of the Abrahamic religions than for any other reason in modern human history.
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