Horrible Histories - Plague Song

Enjoy.

• Category

  Comedy

[CoolLassy]

"Bring out ya dead!"

Immediately thought of The Holy Grail.

[AX200Z]

Where the hell was this unexplainably informed asshole when half of Europe was dying? You know exactly whats causing this shit and you go around SINGING SONGS? The hell man?

[qwyzl]

English people have the best sense of humor. they'll make fun of any thing. : )

[Isobelle Rose]

"you will give 'im a propper burial won't you?"

"course I will, i'll chuck him in the pit with all the others."

"Oh good it's what he would've wanted."

lol

[AX200Z]

I Was joking, I love this show.

[Leon Turner]

ah come on it's FUN

[beth markham]

Haha I cannot get this sing out of my head but it's cool :-) x

[khushbu mistry]

Lol :D

[YesIamEccentric]

That's also true, but as people moved to and from trading cities they took rats with them (by mistake!) as they travelled by boat along rivers and the sea and fleas on their clothes, so the fleas travelled on rats and humans by many different ways infecting people and animals on the way!

[VelmiVelkiZrut]

All that is true. However, a flea doesn't travel that far on its own. The ideal method of transportation is one rat traveling, dying of the plague, and transferring its load onto another rat. There is evidence there was not nearly enough rats present across Europe for this to take place, so an infected rat could cause a localized outbreak but the disease wouldn't move beyond that point.

[YesIamEccentric]

But fleas  also live on other animals (including people) and clothes, and trade also brought rats with it from Asia, where the plague originated

[YesIamEccentric]

Apparently, if Calpol was around in the Middle Ages, then the Plague would've been stopped XD Go Calpol!