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Scientists Just Discovered The First Known Case Of The Plague In A 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton
"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...
Smithsonian Magazine8d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
Oregon resident diagnosed with the plague. What to know about the illness
An earlier major plague pandemic, dubbed the Justinian plague, started in Rome around 541 and continued to erupt for the next ...
PBS7y
History of Quarantine
In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.
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From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
In fact, scientists think that it may have been around before the 1300s, as there are records of a similar disease in Rome in 146AD, known as the Justinian plague. The symptoms of the plague were ...
Opinion
Commentary: Plagues destroy humanity, vaccines save it
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...