Did Flying Corpses Spread the Plague?

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's that the Middle Ages were magic.

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**SELECTED SOURCES & ADDITIONAL READING**

"Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa"
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

"History of biological warfare and bioterrorism"
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2014, Pages 497-502
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

"Catapulted Death: Can a Flying Corpse Distribute the Plague?"
https://www.montana.edu/historybug/ye...

"Introduction to Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radiological, Chemical, and Biological"
R. Everett Langford. John Wiley & Sons Inc., Feb 19, 2004.

"Meet the Trebuchet, the Castle-crushing Catapult of the Middle Ages"
https://history.howstuffworks.com/eur...
John Wiley & Sons, Feb 19, 2004