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Note: Boldface page numbers indicate Centers for Disease Control and
illustrations. Prevention (CDC), 52
Chen, Angus, 32, 33
acquired immunodefi ciency syndrome Chicago, 39
(AIDS). See HIV/AIDS China
Afghanistan, 50 COVID-19 in Wuhan, 61
Africans, enslavement of, 30, 33 plagues in ancient, 6, 11
agriculture and diseases, 10 cholera pandemic of 1817, 7–8
Aldovini, Anna, 55 Christianity and Columbian plagues,
American plagues. See Columbian 28–29
plagues cocoliztli (enteric fever)
Anti-Mask League, 37 cause of, 32–33
anti-Semitism, 20 deaths, 31, 32, 33
Antonine plague, 4, 13–15 as one of Columbian plagues, 27
Athenian plague, 11–13 signs and symptoms of, 31
Atlantic (magazine), 63, 64 Columbian plagues, 4
Aztec, 28, 30–31, 32 cause of, 26–27, 27, 28, 32–33
deaths
Bernstein, Lenny, 60, 61 from cocoliztli, 31, 32, 33
birds as transmitters of diseases, 41 on Hispaniola, 29
Black Death, 4, 19 from smallpox, 29
deaths diseases causing, 27, 29–33
characteristiacs of victims, 18 effects of
number of, 18 enslavement of Africans, 33
percentage of, in English village, on native societies, 28–29, 31
20 Conniff, Richard
as percentage of world on cholera pandemic of 1817, 7–8
population, 24 on distinction between epidemics
effects on Europe of and pandemic, 7
abandonments, 17 on next pandemic, 67
beginning of modern, 18, 24–25 Cortés, Hernán, 30–31
peasant demands and uprisings, COVID-19
19–21, 21 appearance of, 61
questioning of faith, 22–23 attempts to stop spread of, 37
explanations for contact tracing and, 64
bad air, 23–24 deaths, 5, 6, 62
Jews as poisoning water, 20 false claims about, 63
wrath of God, 22 global collective action required, 8
path of, 17–18 groups suffering more than others
realization of contagious nature of, 24 in US, 65
signs and symptoms of, 22 naming of, 61
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 17, 22 in New York City, 5, 6, 60, 61
Bolsonaro, Jair, 63 number of infections, 62
Brevig Mission, Alaska, 39, 41 spread of, 62–65
bubonic plague testing for, 63, 66
cause of, 22 vaccine development, 66, 67
outbreaks after Black Death, 24 Curtis, Ida, 46
percentage of untreated victims
dying, 16 deaths
See also Black Death Antonine plague, 15
Athenian plague, 12
Castillejo, Adam, 59 bubonic plague

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