I think the rats spread cholera (and bubonic plague, earlier) by carrying fleas from one area to another. The flea would bite an infected individual, hop a passing rat, hop off and bite a (previously) uninfected individual... --- Jims505@aol.com wrote: > What you say is very true Sharon. > > It was not known until later that uncooked shell fish from Louisiana > was a > cause too of Cholera in St Louis for many many years. I started > wondering how > imported shrimp from New Orleans made it to St Louis back in the > 1800s without > spoiling. > > Jo and I bought tons of shrimp back in the 1950s but back then there > was > refrigeration and we tended to over cook so were reasonably safe from > uncooked > fish. Forget shushi, that sounds too much like a waste product. > > I can understand how shell fish may be the cause of cholera if they > are > undercooked, shell fish being bottom feeders, but still cannot be > totally sure how > rats fit in. > > Raw sewage being dumped into the river could have caused a lot of > problems. > But how did rats spread the disease?----Jim > > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > Search the Archive of Messages for MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List at > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MO-STLOUIS-METRO > ===== Marsha L. Ensminger searching for Westerhold/t/z in the US and ? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com