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If you want to get into the mindset of what it was like to deal with the black death, check out Plague Doctors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDz0OrRZOZ0 http
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
If you want to get into the mindset of what it was like to deal with the black death, check out Plague Doctors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDz0OrRZOZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDz0OrRZOZ0
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoOn the upside, Black Death survivorship may explain Europeans' relative resilience to HIV (edit: smallpox) [1]. [1] https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15.html https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15.h...
- IncRnd 9y agoIf the contention of this page's article is true (BD spread by humans), then the link you posted is more in favor of smallpox being the cause of relatively greater resistance to HIV in Europe.
- agumonkey 9y agoCute video. Too bad the costume had a few weak spots, the idea of sealing/isolation is deeply valuable. If it hadn't failed there, it would have helped many other diseases.