Ep 57 - Black Death - Plagues, Pandemics & Vaccines

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

Dictionary.com

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