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Mexico, 30–31, 32 smallpox
Michael of Piazza, 22 Antonine plague as, 14, 15
Middle East, ancient, 11 Athenian Plague as, 12
Mitchell, Elise A., 30 Cortés in Mexico and, 30–31, 32
Moderna, 66 enslavement of Africans and, 30, 33
eradication of, 54
National Institutes of Health, 66 immunity and death rate, 29
Nemo, Leslie, 65 in New World, 4
New World plagues. See Columbian plagues as one of Columbian plagues, 27, 29–31
New York City Snowden, Frank M.
COVID-19 in, 5, 6, 60, 61 on AIDS, 55
first cases of AIDS reported, 52 on effects of Black Death, 18
during Spanish flu, 38 on effects of Columbian plagues, 33
Nigeria, 50 on effects of smallpox on Hispaniola, 29
Nunn, Nathan, 33 on eradication of epidemic diseases, 50
on questioning of faith as result of Black
Pakistan, 50 Death, 23
pandemics social media, 63
defining, 7 South Carolina, smallpox in, 30
distinction between epidemics and, 7 Spanish flu, 4, 35
future, 67 attempts to stop spread of, 36–39, 38
overview of, 4 course of, 34–35
peasants and Black Death, 19–21, 21 deaths
Peloponnesian War, 11–12 American soldiers, 40
Pericles, 12Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 17 Brevig Mission, Alaska, 39, 41
Philadelphia, 39–40 on Kansas Indian reservation, 34
polio (poliomyelitis) number of, 35
causes of, 48 prevention and, 39–40
children as primary victims, 44, 45 speed of, 36
deaths, 45 effects of, 40–42
decrease in cases of, 50 end of, 42
early appearances of, 44 fear of, 34, 38
effects on victims of, 43, 44, 45 life expectancy and, 36
fear of, 44 scarcity of health workers, 40
vaccine to prevent signs and symptoms of, 36
early unsuccessful, 47–48 super-spreader parade and, 39
efforts to find, 45–47 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (South Dakota),
Sabin and, 50 65
Salk and, 48–50, 49
Pozniak, Anton, 59 Tenochtitlán, 31Thucydides, 11–12, 13
primates as transmitters of diseases, 9, 54 travel
Procopius, 15–16 Black Death, 24
Pulex irritans (fleas), 10 COVID-19, 62, 66
HIV, 56
Qian, Nancy, 33 Trump, Donald, 63
typhoid fever, Athenian Plague as, 12
Randolph, Lord, 8
religion and Black Death, 20, 22–23, 25 Venice, 24
Roman Empire, 13–16
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 47 Walker, Daly, 43
Roper, Bessie C., 40 Washington Post, 60
Russell, Francis, 42 World Health Organization (WHO), 61
Sabin, Albert B., 50 Yasmin, Seema, 63
Salk, Jonas, 48–50, 49 Yersinia pestis, 22
salmonella, 32–33 Young, Richard A., 55
San Francisco, 37
Saturday Evening Post, 44 Ziegler, Philip, 22–23, 25

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