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Plague of Athens - Coggle Diagram
Plague of Athens
What disease was it?
Typhus
Many people believe it was Typhus, as the symptoms are very similar
"It hits hardest in times of war and privation, it has about 20 percent mortality, it kills the victim after about seven days, and it sometimes causes a striking complication: gangrene of the tips of the fingers and toes. The Plague of Athens had all these features."
However, there weren't many lice infested rats carrying the disease or evidence that Athens lived in unhygienic conditions
Smallpox
Most likely wasn't smallpox as people with that illness would not be capable of physically moving from their beds or throwing themselves into cold water
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Typhoid Fever
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Most commonly transmitted through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions in crowded urban areas
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Measles
J. F. D. Shrewsbury believed it was measles as the harmless of the disease suggested its "newness" to Athens along with Thucydides' description of common measles symptoms such as blindness, diarrhoea, gangrene, sneezing, fever, and thirst.
Bubonic Plague
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Lack of evidence showing the presence of black rats which carried the fleas containing the Yersinia pestis microbe
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Society
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How did people react?
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Were people's reactions similar or different to what they are now, during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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