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The Reaping
In 1400 B.C., a group of nervous Egyptians saw the Nile turn red.
But what they thought was blood was actually an algae bloom,
which killed the fish, which prior to that had been living off the
eggs of frogs.
Those uneaten eggs turned into record numbers of baby frogs
who subsequently fled to the land and died.
Their little rotting frog bodies attracted lice and flies.
The lice carried the bluetongue virus, which killed 70 percent of
Egypt's livestock.
The flies carried glanders, a bacterial infection which in humans
causes boils.
Soon afterwards, the Nile River Valley was hit with a three-day
sandstorm,
otherwise known as the plague of darkness.
During the sandstorm, intense heat can combine with an approaching
cold front
to create not only hail, but also electrical storms which would have
looked to the Egyptians
like fire from the sky.
The subsequent wind would've blown the Ethiopian locust population
off course
and right into downtown Cairo.
Hail is wet, locusts leave droppings
but both on a grain and you've got mycotoxins.
Dinnertime in Egypt meant the first-born child got the biggest
portion
which in this case, meant he ate the most toxins and so he died.
Ten plagues. Ten scientific explanations.
