Re: Answer to Peter A Re: Typhus and the 5th BC Athenian Plague

IEj wrote: news:xVaUf.49447$d5.205934@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Peter when will you learn to read full texts I written?
Not blaiming Philip for sending the post but for being confused
between Typhus and Typhus fever.

Why then assumed that he din't read your flying squirel post?
And he is not confused either. His post is relevant to your question.
Please learn to reply without ad hominem.

Apart from that I wanted to know the origin of the assumed "Typhus" in Athen. In other word more than the article gave away. Do you or
don't you have more special knowledge than you shown in the question
up to now it would be very interesting to learn where it origin from.
Find it hard to believe that the Greek had bad water and hygiene.

Salmonella types are quite common today and people
are dying from it, despite much better medical care.

See eg.:
http://www.salmonella.org/info.html
"There is a great deal of confusion over the naming of Salmonella strains (even the people who work on
Salmonella are confused!)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella


If you want to link Canadian Rickettsia infection
with medieval European plagues, then it is up to
you to find the evidence; in the first place for the
occurence of Typhus in Europe, in the second
place for the occurence in the desired period,
and at last for the connection.

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p.a.

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