In this heavy hitter episode, Rowan and Tracey explore the history of the Black Death and the subsequent plagues and vaccines that came from it.

Sources

World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/health-topics/plague#tab=tab_1

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/infographic/plague/Plague-October-2017.pdf?ua=1

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https://www.dictionary.com/e/is-the-coronavirus-a-plague/

Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html

https://www.livescience.com/plague-doctors.html

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Early_theory

World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/a-visual-history-of-pandemics

Lit Hub

https://lithub.com/ronald-reagan-presided-over-89343-deaths-to-aids-and-did-nothing/

Visual Capitalist

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-deadliest-pandemics-by-population-impact/

Intermountain Healthcare

https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/topics/live-well/2020/04/whats-the-difference-between-a-pandemic-an-epidemic-endemic-and-an-outbreak/

Cleveland Clinic

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21590-bubonic-plague

Science Alert

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-vaccine-for-plague-is-about-to-undergo-human-trials

The Hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/564701-10-year-old-dies-from-complications-linked-to-plague-co-officials-say

Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/56483-vaccines-plague-bacteria.html

History Channel

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/black-death

https://www.history.com/news/black-death-timeline

Eyewitness History

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/flagellants.htm

Stanford News

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/05/12/combating-black-plague-just-much-politics-science/

Open Mind BBVA

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/humanities/sociology/the-black-death-turning-point-and-end-of-the-middle-ages/

NHD.org

https://www.nhd.org/sites/default/files/Franke_Senior_Paper.pdf

Daily History

https://dailyhistory.org/How_did_the_Bubonic_Plague_make_the_Italian_Renaissance_possible

Ex Urbe

https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/

National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/plague-doctors-beaked-masks-coronavirus

Medium

https://medium.com/weird-history/ring-around-the-rosie-a-song-for-the-plague-4647a45b01b1