The black plague

When people think of climate change, most think of rising temperatures, drought, and an increase in storms—the type of climate change Earth is undergoing now. A lot has also been written about how drought and its ills caused empires and kingdoms to fail.

Here is a graphic description of the symptoms and causes of Plague, the horrific disease believed to have caused the Black Death of the 14th century.

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Anne Roberts explores the incidence of plague in England from 1348 to 1679.

Adam Gopnik writes about the political lessons of the current and past pandemics, deriving from the work and commentary of Albert Camus, Niall Ferguson, Wade Davis, and Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

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A group of bodies discovered below London's Liverpool Street station is thought to be the resting place of about 30 victims of the Great Plague of 1665.

As the Bubonic Plague rolled across China, the Middle East, Russia, and Europe from the 14th to 17th centuries, it claimed an estimated 150 million lives, along with the title of deadliest epidemic in human history. Originating in China in the 1300s, it hitched a ride on the Silk Road with rodents and spread West, […]

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