Monica H. Green writes:
The Current Outbreak of Plague isn't a Throwback, But a Sign of Modern World
I see dead people. That’s my job. I’m a historian.
But in the past five years, I have seen many millions more dead people than I ever thought I would as a historian of medicine. In the past five years, I have had the experience of slowly realizing that the Black Death—the massive outbreak of plague that struck in the middle of the 14th century—likely affected many millions more people than we ever imagined in our wildest nightmares...[more]