The historic effect of plague
John Whitehall
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University of Western Sydney
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Microbiology Australia 35(3) 130-132 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA14044
Published: 31 July 2014
Abstract
As palaeopathology appears to have confirmed Yersinia pestis as the organism responsible for all three pandemics of plague (Justinian1,2, Black Death3 and Modern), arguments for the origin of the disasters have given way to debates on their effects. Records narrate the horrors but barely hint at historical results4. This article maintains each pandemic has had a lasting effect and, cumulatively,
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