A ‘Suitable Soil’: Plague’s Urban Breeding Grounds at the Dawn of the Third Pandemic
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DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2017.32
Abstract: A pressing question during the first half-decade of the third plague pandemic (1894–9) was what was a ‘suitable soil’ for the disease. The question related to plague’s perceived ability to disappear from a given city… read more here.
Keywords: soil plague; plague; suitable soil; urban breeding ... See more keywords