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Ep. 33 Pandemic: PLAGUE

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The second episode in our pandemic series is about one of the OGs, plague! This sucker has killed hundreds of millions of people in the past couple millennia, but has been brought low by antibiotics (yay SCIENCE!). But is it gone forever? Nah. Also, bubonic plague as a bioweapon?! It isn't a new idea...

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References:

  • https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140129-justinian-plague-black-death-bacteria-bubonic-pandemic/
  • https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1286457999002051
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200711/
  • http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/plague-fact-sheet
  • https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(14)60858-2/fulltext
  • https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/science/sylvatic-plague?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3256048/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200711/
  • https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist-category.asp
  • http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/cwbw/default_index.htm
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590053619300230
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