2) Remind them that, when making historical comparisons, even basic Internet searches can help prevent chronological errors. E.g. "In the Bard’s day, the Black Death wiped out a quarter of his town’s population." Shakespeare = 1564-1616; Black Death = 1346-1353. 2 centuries diff.
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#plague, a subtler point (though one worth mastering if one is going to write about it repeatedly) is to clarify that there are not three "varieties" of plague. Plague (as it exists now) can enter the body thru different means, & thus create diff. physiological responses.Show this thread -
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#plague in the human body (bubonic, pneumonic, septicemic & gastrointestinal) are caused by a single organism (#YersiniaPestis) & all may have been present to some degree in human outbreaks since the Bronze Age. Where the difference becomes relevant is ...Show this thread -
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4) And when you want to investigate the *history* of a disease, know that science & biomedical indices do not index
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#medhist#epitwitter) following this thread, these two updates on the China cases (still only 2 patients) will be useful to dissect in classroom (though note massive error in the 1st of calling#plague "viral"): 1) https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201911/15/WS5dcde522a310cf3e35577723.html … 2)https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-11-14/beijing-plague-patients-were-medically-transferred-from-inner-mongolia-101483498.html …Show this thread
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And even then, as far as I understand viable smallpox viruses have been detected in the thawing permafrost? Who knows what other surprises Siberia, Canada, and Alaska hold for us?
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Thank you very much for the thread, it was extremely informative.
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