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re: Pandemics of history: “The Plague of Justinian” - Yersinia Pestis
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:33 pm to Flavius Belisarius
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:33 pm to Flavius Belisarius
I’d love to take his classes. I have bought all his great courses lectures and his gravely voice and down to earth style is magnetic. With him, I feel like I’m getting the most realistic and up to date knowledge available.
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Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:34 pm to el Gaucho
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Wow if Justinian would’ve just shut down the gyms and bars like jbe no one would have died
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:35 pm to Flavius Belisarius
Nice handle btw
Posted on 4/7/20 at 8:37 pm to TulaneFan
For some perspective, the greatest killers of mankind have been nonviral organisms. Y. pestis is a bacterium and has caused several depopulating plagues.
However, the greatest killer of humans has been four species of the Plasmodium protozoan. P. falciparum, P. malariae, P. ovale and P. vivax have killed roughly half of all the 108 billion humans who have ever lived.
Even in the 21st century, malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, about 3000 children every day. Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age, with 90 per cent of malaria cases occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 300-600 million people suffer from malaria each year.
Viruses can be deadly, but their history pales when compared to the greatest killers from the microscopic world.
However, the greatest killer of humans has been four species of the Plasmodium protozoan. P. falciparum, P. malariae, P. ovale and P. vivax have killed roughly half of all the 108 billion humans who have ever lived.
Even in the 21st century, malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, about 3000 children every day. Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age, with 90 per cent of malaria cases occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 300-600 million people suffer from malaria each year.
Viruses can be deadly, but their history pales when compared to the greatest killers from the microscopic world.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:02 pm to SEClint
ETA: OIC.
This post was edited on 4/7/20 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:07 pm to TulaneFan
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Plague of Justinian (541-542 CE) which wiped out nearly half of Europe, killing an estimated 25-50 million people
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the disease originated in China
So I guess this one originated from a dragon in a wet market as compared to the weaker bat flu of today
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:08 pm to biglego
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I’d love to take his classes. I have bought all his great courses lectures and his gravely voice and down to earth style is magnetic. With him, I feel like I’m getting the most realistic and up to date knowledge available.
His live lectures were incredible, ancient history live, right in front of you. 100% attendance by enthusiastic students. He was known for kicking out those students who skipped, and would always talk about the wait list to take his courses. He is the teacher who taught me how to actually write. Really, really nice guy, but a brutal grader of term papers and essays.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 9:22 pm to TulaneFan
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swelling in the groin
How does one go about contacting this pestilence?
Posted on 4/7/20 at 11:42 pm to lsutiger2010
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In the US?
No
Um did I say that?
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