Mass grave in Jordan sheds new light on world’s earliest recorded pandemic Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire

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6 years ago today, the first confirmed COVID-19 case emerged in Wuhan when a man reported an unexplained respiratory illness. That single case marked the start of a global pandemic that reshaped healthcare forever. #COVID19Anniversary #WuhanOutbreak #PandemicHistory #SARSCoV2

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This certified Lucius Verus Denarius is the relic of the Emperor whose victory triggered the Antonine Plague, Rome's worst Public Health Crisis.

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🤯 THE COIN THAT BROUGHT THE PLAGUE.

This certified Lucius Verus Denarius is the relic of the Emperor whose military victory triggered the Antonine Plague, Rome's deadliest Public Health Crisis.

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1510 Flu Pandemic: Europe's First Influenza Crisis Uncover the impact of the 1510 flu pandemic across Europe and how it shaped early modern understandings of disease and public health.

The year: 1510.

The virus: unstoppable.

The lesson: still not learned.

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Encephalitis Lethargica: Forgotten 20th-Century Pandemic Explore the mysterious Encephalitis Lethargica outbreak that paralyzed medicine and society in the early 20th century.

They called it the “sleeping sickness” — but it wasn’t sleep.

Victims were locked inside themselves.

Awake. Aware. Paralyzed.

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Bones, Plagues, and Pigs: How Farming Reshaped Our Immune System The largest ancient DNA pathogen study ever conducted reveals how domestication and migration changed human health, triggering pandemics that shaped prehistory—and still echo in our genomes today.

Ancient DNA reveals that farming triggered the rise of deadly zoonoses 6,500 years ago. 214 pathogens found in 1,300 prehistoric humans show how disease shaped migration, collapse, and evolution. #archaeogenetics #pandemichistory #humanorigins #zoonosis @nature.com

G. Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023). Pages xii + 420 + figures 10 + tables 5. £30.00 hardback. | Continuity and Cha... G. Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023). Pages xii + 420 + figures 10 + tables 5. £30.00 hardback.

"Alfani shows that inequality has increased near monotonically with the exception only of large-scale catastrophes, such as the Black Death, the German Thirty Years’ War and the two world wars." Review of Alfani, As Gods Among Men: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #PandemicHistory