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historical epidemics
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What Does Epidemic Mean? The Hidden Science Behind Outbreaks
Consider the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. At its peak, it infected over 28,000 people and killed more than 11,000—a devastating surge that met the...
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The Dancing Plague: History’s Most Bizarre Mass Hysteria
What followed was a wave of similar outbreaks across Europe, from Switzerland to the Netherlands, each episode leaving behind a trail of exhausted bodies and...