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Yes, and there's some historical evidence that it actually made people MORE sick.
Jewish and Muslim communities weren't nearly hit as hard by the Black Death than Christian ones, and it's theorized it's because Judaism and Islam requires regular ritual bathing. Turns out it's important to wash your penis.
Europeans were also well known for smelling like shit. There's stories about people lighting incense whenever Europeans are around, and the Europeans thought it was some kind of ritual, but actually they were just chasing away their stank.
Yes they were. Eurocentric histories just dont focus on how the black death affected the middle east. It was apocalyptic in north Africa. Centuries old infrastructure could no longer be maintained causing ecological change and desertification that still scar the landscape to this day.