Kyle Harper
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It was just a handful of people at first, but they did get there.
Yeah, it's such a – it's a tricky problem because – start with the third plague pandemic in the late 19th century.
Yeah.
We know that that's in India.
Yeah.
And India is a big part of its history.
It's in fact where the plague Bacillus is discovered by Alexander Yersin.
It's called Yersinia pestis.
In his honor, a Japanese scientist finds it exactly the same time.
It gets left out of the nomenclature.
The worst pathogen ever.
Immortality.
The plague is definitely in India in the 17th century.
Yeah.
And we know that from contemporary written records that are pretty unambiguous about the presence of the disease.
Right.
What we don't know is was it there before that?
And if not, why not?
Because it kind of actually seems like it's not, at least not in this like same explosive way.
And that's pretty curious.