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Article: Breakout: The Evolving Threat of Drug-Resistant Disease.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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By Marc Ph.D. Published by Sierra Club Books. Price: $14.00.
In 1347, a plague so virulent and so contagious struck Europe that within four years, one third of the population of the continent was wiped out. To the terrified people of the time, the arrival of the "Black Death" and subsequent outbreaks of bubonic plague were so unexpected and mysterious in origin that they could only be thought of as "visitations" from God from one of his darkest angels.
Today we have less supernatural explanations for the outbreaks of plague that inflicted so much death and suffering on the medieval world. Plague-carrying fleas on brown rats are one well-known part of the ...