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Scientists Just Discovered The First Known Case Of The Plague In A 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton
"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...
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Weird Plague 'Cures' (The Black Death)
The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and groins of victims, decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages, ...
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Doctor with Hamilton ties, 1st Black man at White House reception, among 'courageous' Civil War surgeons
(Toronto Public Library) More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin ... followed his friend and mentor — fellow Black Civil War Dr. Alexander Augusta, who trained in Canada in ...
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Causes and effects of the Black Death
Some doctors burst the buboes of patients with bubonic plague. There is some evidence that this may have helped increase chances of survival. To try and stop the spread of Black Death, fines were ...
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From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have killed ... In 1798, an British doctor, Edward Jenner, developed a vaccine. In 1966, the World Health Organisation began a global ...