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Plagued by a sense of deja vu An enthusiastic look at the decline of the Byzantine Empire lacks originality
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JUSTINIAN'S FLEA: PLAGUE, EMPIRE AND THE BIRTH OF EUROPE
William Rosen
Jonathan Cape, GBP 20
IN THE early 20th century, the highly eccentric Dean and Warden of
New College, Oxford, William Archibald Spooner, famously acquired
something of a reputation for making comical slips of the tongue and
for coining unintentionally amusing or unfortunate phrases. In one
such, he is reported to have declared in a book review that the work
in question filled "a much needed gap in sc...
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Plagued by a sense of deja vu An enthusiastic look at the decline of the Byzantine Empire lacks originality
Scotland on Sunday
; JUSTINIAN'S FLEA: PLAGUE, EMPIRE AND THE BIRTH OF EUROPE William Rosen Jonathan Cape, GBP 20 IN THE early 20th century, the highly eccentric Dean and Warden of New College, Oxford, William Archibald Spooner, famously acquired something of a reputation for making comical slips of the tongue and for
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Rear Window: Maybe the black rat didn't do it
The Independent - London
; WAS IT bubonic plague that killed one in three English people in the Black Death? The outbreak of plague in India has prompted a rash of potted histories of the events of 1348-50, when something like 1.4 million English people, from a total population of little more than 4 million, died of disease.
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Model explains bubonic plague's persistence.(research speculates that the bubonic plague never truly goes away, but attacks humans only when the rat population dwindles)(Brief Article)
Science News
; After bubonic plague reached Europe in the 14th century, major cities such as Venice enacted strict quarantines intended to keep out infected, shipborne rats. The cities would remain free of the disease for a time, but every decade or so, the plague returned. People have presumed that infected rats
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Boy of seven has bubonic plague
The Independent - London
; A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy has been admitted to hospital with bubonic plague in a village in Kazakstan. Ninety-six people were also sent for testing. Bubonic plague is transmitted by fleas that infect rats. If transmitted to humans, the disease can kill in three days.
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L.A. has case of bubonic plague
Daily Breeze
; A woman was hospitalized earlier this month with bubonic plague, the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County in more than two decades, health officials said Tuesday. The woman, who was not identified, was admitted April 13 with a fever, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms. A blood test
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Pathogens and People: Bubonic plague still instills fear
Capital (Annapolis)
; Every now and then I run into bubonic plague. When I was in graduate school the guy in the lab next door was growing gallons of Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, for his thesis. Years later, in Colorado, I watched from behind the relative safety of gloves and respirator as my CDC colleagues
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Faster than the Black Death
The Independent - London
; PNEUMONIC PLAGUE is a highly contagious variant of the "Black Death", the bubonic plague that claimed a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages. Without antibiotic treatment, the mortality rate for the pneumonia-like illness is around 98 per cent, against 57 per cent for bubonic plague.
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Ohio Man Orders Bubonic Plague Through Mail
Chicago Sun-Times
; WASHINGTON All Larry Wayne Harris wanted to know was what was holding up his order of bubonic plague. But the white supremacist's May 10 call to the Rockville, Md., headquarters of the American Type Culture Collection, the world's largest distributor of microorganisms, did more than confirm that
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Camping area shut down by plague.
Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT)
; ... newspaper, go to http://www.sltrib.com. Copyright (c) 2006, The Salt Lake Tribune Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-65 ...
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Pestis redux: the initial years of the third bubonic plague pandemic, 1894-1901 *.
Journal of World History
; ... World Atlas of Epidemic Disease) (Hamburg: Falk-Verlag, 1961, 3 vols.), is the best source for mortality statistics, distribution maps, and chronology of the third pandemic. (8) Rodenwaldt and Jusatz (eds.), World Atlas of Epidemic Disease. Official notifications ...
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