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The bubonic plague took over 50,000 lives in colonial Senegal between 1914 and 1945. The Africans tenaciously resisted coercive and punitive plague control meas
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The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of
Medicine Before the Plague
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Authors: Michael Rogers McVaugh
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An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.
Plague Ports
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Reveals the global effects of the bubonic plague, and what we can learn from this earlier pandemic A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taki
Black Death
Language: en
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Authors: Sean Martin
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The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia, the plag