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While mortality from starvation increased during the famine, nothing took so many lives as the Bubonic Plague. Warmer climates can cause rodent populations to explode, and this is most likely how ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

Bubonic plague is most commonly associated with the Middle Ages when the Black Death wiped out as many as 200 million people and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.

As the accompanying photos show, Florida and humanity at large, have suffered many banes of existence, from cholera to yellow ...