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Why Is It Unlikely That the Frequent Epidemics in China

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Why is it unlikely that the frequent epidemics in China between the 1320s and 1360s were the bubonic plague familiar to modern medicine?


A) There was insufficient contact between regions for it to be the same pathogen.
B) Contemporary accounts refer to a different illness.
C) There were no black rats in China during this period.
D) The suddenness and virulence of the disease suggests a new pathogen.

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