SciShow | 6 Mysterious Ancient Outbreaks

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Episode Title: 6 Mysterious Ancient Outbreaks
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Description: Epidemiologists are always trying to get one step ahead of the next big outbreak - and often the best clues we have come from outbreaks of the past. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section11.html The Great Dying https://www.cvltnation.com/the-great-dying-new-englands-coastal-plague-1616-1619/ https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/2/09-0276_article https://slate.com/technology/2012/11/leptospirosis-and-pilgrims-the-wampanoag-may-have-been-killed-off-by-an-infectious-disease.html Cocoliztli https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730237/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0446-6 https://www.nature.com/news/collapse-of-aztec-society-linked-to-catastrophic-salmonella-outbreak-1.21485 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/one-history-s-worst-epidemics-may-have-been-caused-common-microbe https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2018/infectious-diseases-related-to-travel/typhoid-paratyphoid-fever The Justinian Plague https://jmvh.org/article/the-history-of-plague-part-1-the-three-great-pandemics/ https://www.ancient.eu/article/782/justinians-plague-541-542-ce/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140129-justinian-plague-black-death-bacteria-bubonic-pandemic/ https://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson1/section11.html https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1003349 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(13)70323-2/fulltext The Antonine Plague http://people.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1996-7/Smith.html https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aed2/362d29976c73601e6d9e0c7ca7647553700f.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/293979.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20046111 https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-7-52 The Plague of Athens https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/disease-plague-of-athens-ebola/403561/ https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/61/6/963/450988 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19787658 http://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(05)00178-5/pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0097-z https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/13836_2018_17 Earliest Known Plague https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867418314648 https://www.livescience.com/64246-ancient-plague-swedish-tomb.html Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bubonic_plague_victims-mass_grave_in_Martigues,_France_1720-1721.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tribal_Territories_Southern_New_England.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leptospira_interrogans_strain_RGA_01.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leptospira_scanning_micrograph.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FlorentineCodex_BK12_F54_smallpox.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SalmonellaNIAID.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plaguet03.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leptospirosis_in_kidney.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yersinia_pestis.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_distribution_of_plague_1998.PNG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galenus.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rinderpest_Virus.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Measles_virus.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plague_in_an_Ancient_City_LACMA_AC1997.10.1_(1_of_2).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cole_Thomas_The_Course_of_Empire_Destruction_1836.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Directors_of_Global_Smallpox_Eradication_Program.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athenian_empire_atheight_450_shepherd1923.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thucydides_pushkin02.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erechtheum_Acropolis_Athens.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Plague_of_Athens...1709_Wellcome_L0030143.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ebola_Virus_Particle_(43492898261).jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/cdcglobal/14907212221 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trypillian_city_(Maydanets).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bizansist_touchup.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Champlain%27s_Map_of_Plymouth_Harbor.jpg https://tinyurl.com/y3h28wyz https://tinyurl.com/ybev6ep6 https://tinyurl.com/y3gj69m6 https://tinyurl.com/ya3madlx https://www.nature.com/articles/s41435-019-0065-0


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