Aussie Patriot. Nasty1 on twit-ta . I walk my own path, share my own thoughts & my own digs.
Allow me to respectfully disagree...
The khan lost again, but this time his retreat wouldn’t be victimless: determined to destroy the city and kill his inhabitants he ordered to catapult the corpse of the plague victims. The infection hit hard the genoeses and soon the survivors left the city to return to Italy. They landed in Messina, in Sicily. It was 1347 and from there the disease spread like wildfire to the rest of the peninsula and then to the rest of Europe.
https://medium.com/@alberto.laratro/how-the-black-plague-arrived-in-europe-the-birth-of-biological-warfare-292a0adef59a
How the Black Plague arrived in Europe — The birth of biological warfare | by Alberto Laratro | Medium
The use of germs and pathogens in war is one of the dirtiest tricks humans can use against their own kind. We’re used to thinking to it as a weapon born during the first World War, but in reality…
https://medium.com/@alberto.laratro/how-the-black-plague-arrived-in-europe-the-birth-of-biological-warfare-292a0adef59a