sciencex3 年
Was the Black Death the most devasting pandemic ever? Probably yes, but not everywhere
In this way, it assessed the impact of the most devasting pandemic in human history, the Black Death. The international research group made up of ca. 60 researchers analyzed 1,634 pollen samples from ...
来自MSN11 个月
13 Facts About the Black Death
The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between one-third and two-thirds of the entire population. But it wasn’t all ...
When Covid hit Black Americans hard, too many white Americans shrugged
The higher rates of infection and death weren’t the result of anything Black people had done to make ourselves sick; they ...
THE WEEK4 年
The Black Death: what was it, how did it start and what effect has it had?
It's a disease we associate with medieval times, when it was known as the "Black Death", but fears are growing that an outbreak of bubonic plague could be the next global pandemic. With that fear ...
Infobae4 年
How the ‘Black Death’ Pandemic Reshaped Europe’s Feudal Economy
Of course, the Covid-19 pandemic is nowhere near as deadly as the Black Death, which killed millions of people across Europe. Nonetheless, it was a historic disruption to everyday life ...
WHO adds Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox to new pandemic watchlist
The Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox are among 24 threats that have been added to an influential watchlist of the ...
BBC2 年
Early pandemics: the plague
COVID 19 was not the first, nor will it be the last. The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of ...
The Scientist2 年
Black Death Likely Originated in Central Asia
This made Slavin wonder whether the site might help settle a long debate about the origins of the Black Death pandemic that arrived in Europe around 1347 CE. Knowing he’d have little chance of finding ...
Daily Mail23 天
The Black Death was spread by Mongol troops in the Middle East a century before it wiped ...
In Britain alone, the Black Death wiped out up to half of the population ... beyond the immediate locales of outbreaks, meaning a pandemic did not occur. Professor Nahyan Fancy from the ...
BlackDoctor.org2 天
5 Years Later: Did COVID Change Anything for Black America?
Currently, about 14.1 million Americans are experiencing long COVID symptoms, with nearly a quarter reporting significant activity limitations. Recent data also indicates that around 1.01 million ...
Phys.org25 天
Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
A prolonged and widespread human outbreak of plague, a pandemic like the Black Death and the hundreds of years of plague waves that followed it, can only have happened after an earlier period in ...
BBC4 年
This Is My Story – four Black-British authors on writing during a global pandemic
Then Covid-19 and lockdown arrived, forcing plans to be shelved as the global pandemic changed life ... about what it means to be Black. I think the death of George Floyd is like another death ...