On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:31:50 +1100 Warwick and Eleanor Dilley <dilleywe@bigpond.net.au> wrote: Hello Warwick, > I understand that it was from the bite of fleas which came from rats. At the time though, it was thought that cats were the problem. They (cats) were slaughtered to try and reduce the plague. The irony being, of course, that they were killing off one of the things that could reduce the rat population. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" We don't need no-one to tell us what's right or wrong The Modern World - The Jam