Re: H1N5 (and Bakker's virus extinction hypothesis) now H5N1

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

> On Sun, 14 May 2006 20:49:34 +0200 Tommy Tyrberg writes:
> 
> > Bubonic plague as far as is known has *not* been around for 
> > millenia, at 
> > least not in Europe and the Middle East. There is as a matter of 
> > fact no 
> > indication that plague ever occurred there before the Justinian 
> > Plague 
> > (542-551).


Based on a cursed photographic memory, I just went back and rechecked my
hard drive for some date correlations:

I found this cryptic tidbit:

"A.D. ~540     Possible impact event somewhere on Earth (hinted at by
Irish chronicles and Chinese writings, as well as by growth rings in old
trees around the world).  Sky darkness and low temperatures reported. 
Principal investigator: Mike Baillie, PhD, Queens University, Belfast,
Northern Ireland."


The close date matchup with the epidemic is probably nothing more than a
coincidence, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.  A lot of
weird historical s^&#$ was happing around that date.  The mythical
(historical?) King Arthur purportedly died around this date.  European
record keeping was near its nadir at this point in history.  Fortunately,
the Chinese chroniclers picked up the slack.

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