Talk:Galvani's Speculation/@comment-192.0.189.206-20160120033359/@comment-16533050-20160120034459

I take it more of a: "Five to seven years is the LONGEST they could have been here for" hence the 'at most'.

By that statement the rats could have been introduced any time from the beginning of the plague (about 2 years before this was recorded) until as far as 5 to 7 years ago.