:lol: where did you hear this??? :lol:
Pretty sure Genghis died in the 1220s (methinks 1227, but not sure)
Black Plague was a 1340s thing wasn't it?? Yes, there was the plague in Asia in the 1330s, but ol' mate Genghis had been dead over 100 years. Not sure he was flinging plague infected bodies over any walls then....
Sorry mate, it wasn't Genghis who did the flinging. They were unrelated topics.
If I recall my history Genghis stayed more around China
A principal source on the origin of the Black Death is a memoir by the Italian Gabriele de? Mussi. This memoir has been published several times in its original Latin (2,3) and has recently been translated into English (4) (although brief passages have been previously published in translation, see reference [5]). This narrative contains some startling assertions: that the Mongol army hurled plague-infected cadavers into the besieged Crimean city of Caffa, thereby transmitting the disease to the inhabitants; and that fleeing survivors of the siege spread plague from Caffa to the Mediterranean Basin. If this account is correct, Caffa should be recognized as the site of the most spectacular incident of biological warfare ever, with the Black Death as its disastrous consequence. After analyzing these claims, I have concluded that it is plausible that the biological attack took place as described and was responsible for infecting the inhabitants of Caffa; however, the event was unimportant in the spread of the plague pandemic.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/01-0536_article
