Recently, there has been a lot of debates about the Black Plague disease. One group of scholars, represented by the lecturer, believe that the disease origin and transmission is different from what is discussed in the reading passage. The first area of dispute is the origin of the black plague. It has been aimed that the origin of this plague was from Asia and North Africa especially that the last one is still having out breaks until today. According to the professor, an archaeologist was studying insects in the ancient of Egypt and she found rats that carry the plague. Thus, it is clear that disease was transmitted during the flood of the Nile River which had driven the infected rats into human's communities. Because of this, China is not
