Quote Originally Posted by Captain Fishpants
The impact of the real Black Death in Europe cannot be underestimated - most of us will never see anything a tenth as bad, even as global warming bites. I suggest that if you're interested in seeing just how awful the plague was, and what the long term effects were, you could do a lot worse than read Norman Cantor's superb book, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made. You can find it here, if you're interested: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wake-Plague-...e=UTF8&s=books
Bird Flu is very scary. Human mortality rates are around 50 percent. Let us just hope it quietly disappears rather than mutates the capability to spread easily among humans.