Plagues of our past
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What's the Biggest Pandemic of the Past?
The plague is the most forceful infectious disease. It lurks, and then it recurs. We know this from a richer documentary record than you might think. There are records that help us see that there's a lot of diseases on the horizon in pre-modern societies. But plague really stands out when this rodent disease gets hold of our black rats to start jumping from rats to humans.
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