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How the bubonic plague (Black Death) devastated Europe and Asia
The Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million ...
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Did Biblical Translators Mistranslate a Word as ‘Leprosy?’
There were many biblical words that translators and commentators mistranslated. Tzaraat was one of the many. It is mentioned in the 13th chapter of the fourth biblical portion of Leviticus, Tazri’a 12 ...
MedievalMadness on MSN2d
The Harsh Reality of Being Sick in the Middle Ages
Illness in the Middle Ages was often a death sentence, especially for commoners. With limited medical knowledge, widespread ...
'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers
In "So Very Small," author Thomas Levenson recounts the complex history of how humans came to discover germs and the ...