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History of the Plague: An Ancient Pandemic for the Age of COVID-19

During the fourteenth century, the bubonic plague or Black Death killed more than one third of Europe or 25 million people. Those afflicted died quickly and horribly from an unseen menace, spiking high fevers with suppurative buboes (swellings). Its causative agent is Yersinia pestis, creating recur...

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Autores principales: Glatter, Kathryn A., Finkelman, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32979306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.08.019