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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 Magazine6d
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 ...
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Early pandemics: the plague
The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351 ... George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of the isolation huts. He dreads the thought ...