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The disease was particularly deadly in the cities and in the Roman army. The Antonine plague occurred during the last years of what is called the Pax Romana, the high point in the influence, territorial control, and population of the Roman Empire. Historians differ in their opinions of the impact of the plague on the empire in the increasingly ...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse [1] are figures in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible, a piece of apocalypse literature attributed to John of Patmos. Similar allusions are contained in the Old Testament books of Ezekiel and Zechariah, written about six centuries prior. Though the text only provides a name for the ...
Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 ( French: Épidémie dansante de 1518 ), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France ), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for ...
Yersinia pestis. Categories: Zoonotic bacterial diseases. Bacterium-related cutaneous conditions. Rodent-carried diseases. Insect-borne diseases. Airborne diseases. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Symptoms of the Bubonic Plague included painful and enlarged or swollen lymph nodes, headaches, chills, fatigue, vomiting, and fevers, and within 3 to 5 days, 80% of the victims would be dead. [1] Historians estimate that it reduced the total world population from 475 million to between 350 and 375 million.
Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa ( French: Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa) is an oil-on-canvas painting commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte and painted in 1804 by Antoine-Jean Gros, portraying an event during the French invasion of Egypt. [1] The scene shows Napoleon during a striking scene which is supposed to have ...
Binomial name. Aphanomyces astaci. Schikora, 1906 [1] Crayfish plague ( Aphanomyces astaci) is a water mold that infects crayfish, most notably the European Astacus which dies within a few weeks of being infected. When experimentally tested, species from Australia, New Guinea and Japan were also found to be susceptible to the infection.
