Talk:Great gerbil

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found an A that was attached to another letter, fixed it. --Danrduggan 18:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)danrduggan

Black Death
The PNAS paper by Schmidt and co-workers does not say "it was these rodents and not the black rats which were responsible for the spread of plague in Europe during the 14th century." The paper says that plague was regularly re-introduced to Europe from Asia rather than persisting between epidemics in European rats. The great gerbil is one of the examples of hosts in Asia, and it was the example mentioned in the press release.

On transmission within Europe after an epidemic started, the paper actually says "It seems therefore more likely that plague spread through Europe in a variety of ways, as it did in India during the third plague pandemic. In India, the disease was documented to spread from person to person, by infected goods, and through rats" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.216.51.91 (talk) 22:17, 26 February 2015 (UTC)