Glanced at the abstract, and the amazon reviews. The medieval medical guilds were well aware of the clinical symptoms of the Black Death, so I wonder how Mike B

Glanced at the abstract, and the amazon reviews. The medieval medical guilds were well aware of the clinical symptoms of the Black Death, so I wonder how Mike Baillie connects the characteristic buboes of the plague with meteor strikes? I enjoyed reading this paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632865/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632865/ The paper highlights several aspects of plague that were different between the second and third plague pandemic, and which caused a scientific movement that searched for alternative explanations for the Black Death - that is, until the Yersinia pestis bacterium got sequenced from multiple Black Death mass graves.