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Article: Ebola-Poe: a modern-day parallel of the red death? (Another Dimension).
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
- Author:
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Plagues and pestilence have evoked fear and awe since time immemorial. Often viewed as divine retribution, these scourges are mentioned in many cultural and religious texts, including the Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud. History itself is punctuated and shaped by epidemics, whose accounts are at the center of such literary works as Boccachio's Decameron, Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera. These works provide rare insight into the impact of real epidemics. Accounts of fictional epidemics, such as Albert Camus' The Plague or Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of Red Death, are even more fascinating and debatable. ...