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This is super fascinating: But what about the survivors of what remains the single greatest mortality event ever recorded? New research published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests it was more than luck that determined who lived and who died.Analysis of centuries-old DNA from both...
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Miasma

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On April 24, 2021
Well, this is certainly an interesting argument from the historian of medicine Melanie Kiechle. Does the pandemic mean that we need to take 19th century theories of medicine seriously again? Revisiting the history of miasma theory and its subsequent disappearance from our understandings of disease...
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If you read the comments at LGM or anywhere else on the liberal internet, it's all doom and gloom, with commenters one upping each other in assuming the very worst news about the virus. But the increasing evidence from scientists is that....this disease operates like...

Do Not Be a Fool

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On May 13, 2020

The Spanish were able to conquer the Mexica (Aztecs) due to the smallpox wiping out Tenochtitlan between 1519-21. But in the writings that survived the Spanish conquest, there were guides.

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How the Pandemic Ends

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On May 10, 2020
I am not a historian of medicine. But as an environmental historian, I'm familiar enough with this cousin of my field to know the stories they tell well enough. And this interview with various historians of medicine about how the pandemic ends (or perhaps "ends")...
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