Rattus norvegicus, or the "Norwegian rat", is not bred for scientific purposes. It is the common sewer rat found nearly everywhere. The rat bred for scientific purposes is one of number of strains (subspecies) of rattus norvegicus but each is known by its strain's name, not by the species name.
Navabi claims that modern antibiotics and other protocols would not be effective against a 700 year old strain of bacteria. The opposite is true. The ancient strain would not have evolved resistance (as, for example, MRSA has) and would therefore be sensitive to a wide range of antibiotics.
Characters frequently state that there is no cure for ancient strains of the plague with modern antibiotics. This is the opposite of the truth. Bubonic plague is easily treatable with antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin and moxifloxacin, gentamicin and doxycycline. Modern strains of bacterial disease (e.g., MTSA) have evolved resistance but older strains would not have.
Aram (Amir Arison) locates Perez (Blake DeLong) near gate C13. Dulles Airport doesn't have a gate C13.
The idea that you need a sample of the "original" strain in order to properly analyze the infectious agent is utter nonsense.
31 miles east of Staten Island puts one in lower Brooklyn or in the Atlantic Ocean, not in Manhattan, the stated location of "Holy Trinity Church" where the plague-contaminated bones have supposedly been stashed.
The entire concept of people in ancient times taking a bacterial strain "to the end of the world" is ludicrous. Hundreds of years before Pasteur and Koch, microorganisms had not even been discovered back then and people knew very little about contagion, hygiene, mechanisms of transmission etc.
Reseller called the Black Death 'bubonic plague'. Lillian Sharp corrects him and says it is pneumonic plague and more fatal. She is wrong on both counts.
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