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2023-09-23 21:37:10 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: F579FB16220D5157FB3CEE8A4394ACC8123F40DC6A5AA0E825E31E2B684ED976
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People used to clean themselves daily in European 17th century, since they usually had physically demanding jobs. The bubonic plague was spread mostly by fleas, like typhus is right now in USA. https://www.worldhistory.org/Medieval_Hygiene/ https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/04/fast-and-lethal-the-black-death-spread-more-than-a-mile-per-day https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/typhus-from-fleas-is-on-the-rise-in-la-county-cdc-warns
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