WI : AIDS instead of Black Death

So no one in Africa is living in unhygienic, unsanitary conditions?
Lots. But they aren't the primary
reservoir of the disease. If there were not elites (so to speak)
with access to antibiotics and better hygiene, and if Africa
were not subjected to contamination from external sources,
the disease wouldn't have lasted enough to reach the present situation.

Of course, I am NOT defending this (implied) barbaric system of riding
Africa of the disease.
 
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If it popped up in the 1300's (the real question is how it managed to cross the species boundary and spread given the time period), especialy in Europe I think that it may very well be gone by the modern day, Humans do afterall develop imunities over time, and given roughy 640 years, an immunity (outside the small group that already were) would have developed and spread.
 

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AIDS didn't appear until the 1950s. Even if it did transmit to humans earlier it won't have the effect it did in OTL. The Plauge was transmitted by rats. AIDS is transmitted by humans. Back then people A, did not have many sexual partners and B, didn't travel much. Most people spent their whole lives in one shire. It was effectively a life in quarantine. I think the damage would be on par with syphilis and the social reaction much the same.
Exactly. Really, it's much like early strains of syphilis, which were killing very fast. So no, no doom nor extinction, just another deadly STD that evolves into less deadly form after a century (barring vaccine)
 
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