A Day In History

A Day In The Life Of A Plague Doctor During The Bubonic Plague (2022x21)

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Throughout history, the word plague has invariably been used to describe any infectious disease, but today it refers specifically to the bacterial infection of the strain Yersinia pestis: commonly known as bubonic plague. As human populations in the Middle Ages expanded but medical knowledge failed to progress from the times of the Ancient Greeks, great sweeping outbreaks of infectious disease were allowed to flourish unchecked.