A Blast From The Past: Preventative Medicine During The Black Death — MindScope

Manal
4 min readDec 24, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is not the only known outbreak of an infectious disease. For several years, the bubonic plague caused some of the harshest outbreaks in history. Today, it is the most common infection developing from the bacterium Yersinia pestis, totaling 80% of Yersinia pestis-related cases worldwide. There have been three known waves centered…

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Manal

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