In history class, we learn that the Bubonic Plague spread across Europe during the Middle Ages, killing 25% to 60% of the population there due to infected rats and their fleas. According to the WHO, the Bubonic Plague is most endemic today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru. Wikipedia says that 650 cases of Bubonic Plague are reported each year, mostly in these countries. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru are countries that have problems with access to clean water, not rat infestation problems. Rats thrive in major cities where they have access to food and places to hide and few predators. Newsweek complied a list of America's 10 Most Rat-Infested Cities in 2021, and not one of them has a Bubonic Plague problem. Chicago tops the list, and the last Bubonic Plague death there was Professor Malcolm J. Casadaban in 2009. He was a University of Chicago Medical Center researcher who was studying Bubonic Plague. If Bubonic Plague was spread by rats and fleas and was so ridiculously contagious as to kill 25% to 60% of the European population during the Black Death, you would think that these rats and their fleas would still be spreading it in these cities—at least to some extent—but they're not. It leads me to think that the Jew who confessed under torture that Jews had been instructed by Rabbis on how to poison wells with germs grown from the body parts of "frogs, lizards, spiders and 'Christians’ hearts'" wrapped in cloth might have been telling the truth. It seems to be a more plausible explanation than blaming it on rats—which are still a big problem today—unlike Bubonic Plague.
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