Tag: #Plague
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Suspected case of Bubonic Plague found in Mongolia
6th July 2020: A Suspected case of bubonic plague in China’s Inner Mongolia erupted on Sunday raising the alarm. According to a report by CNN, authorities in the Chinese region of inner Mongolia are on high alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague, the disease that caused the Black Death pandemic, was reported Sunday.…
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1720 Plague vs COVID-19
This account of the advent and course of plague at Marseilles in 1720 highlights the full impact of plague on this prosperous city, the most important port of France. It likewise echoes many of the elements known from plague epidemics elsewhere in Europe in the medieval and early modern period. In 1720, a ship was…