5 disasters blamed on animals
1. The Black Death, also called the plague, which killed an estimated one-third of the people in
Europe in the 14th century, was spread by rats.
2. The Great Chicago Fire of 1876 is popularly blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
3. It's estimated that 5 percent of all power outages across the United States are caused by squirrels.
4. A collision with a gull brought down an Eastern Airlines flight from Boston in 1960, killing 62 of 72 passengers.
5. A major famine in west Africa in 2004 was blamed on swarms of locusts.
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