Human ectoparasite transmission of the plague during the Second Pandemic is only weakly supported by proposed mathematical models

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Aug 21;115(34):E7892-E7893. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1809775115. Epub 2018 Aug 3.

Sang Woo Park¹, Jonathan Dushoff^{2

3}, David J D Earn^{4

3}, Hendrik Poinar^{2

3

5

6}, Benjamin M Bolker^{4

2

3}

¹ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1; parksw3@mcmaster.ca.
² Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.
³ Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.
⁴ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.
⁵ McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L9.
⁶ Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L8.

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