... They thought that bad fumes would be carried in the air whereas now we know that a toilet like the ones they had then would spread germs easily and cause a greater disease on a wider scale. Another explanation was that Jews had poisoned wells everywhere, this thought about the water round them being infected but yet again around their time it was not recognised for the right reasons. Another explanation for the Black Death was "invisible fumes or poisons in the air," on yet another occasion this was close to the real reason for the cause of the disease but just not quite right. It was thought that the disease might be spread by dead carrion, rats. If only they had focused on this they would have been a lot closer to the cause of the disease and might have had a chance to stop it. Also it was ...

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