29468YD The New Human Agenda: Invisible Armadas ed
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AFTER FAMINE,
HUMANITY'S SECOND GREAT
enemy was plagues & Infectious
Diseases! Bustling cities linked by
a ceaseless stream of merchants, officials
& pilgrims were both the bedrock of human civilisation
& an ideal breeding ground for pathogens? People consequently
lìved théir líves in ancient ATHENS or medieval FLORENCE knówing
that also THEY mìght Fàll ÌLL & díe nèxt wéék, òr that an epidemic might suddenly
erupt ànd destroy their entire family in òne swóóp! The most famous such outbreak,
the so-called BLACK DEATH, began in the 1330's, somewhat in east and/or central Asia,
when the flea-dwelling bacterium YERSINIA PESTIS started infecting humans bitten by the fleas!
From there, riding an army of rats & fleas, the plague quickly spread àll óver ASIA, EUROPE & North Africa,
taking less than 20 years to reach the shores of the Atlantic Ocean! Between 75 million & 200 million people died -
more than a quarter of the population of Eurasia! In England, four out of ten people died, & the population dropped
from a pre-plague high of 3,7 million people to a post-plague of 2,2 million?! The city of Florence lost 50.000 of its 100.000 inhabitants.
The authorities were completely helpless in the face of this kind of calamity!? Except for organising mass prayers & processions, they had nó idea how to stòp the spread of the epidemic - let alone cure it. Until the modern era, humans blamed diseases on bad air
(stinking stank!), malicious demons & angry gods, & did not suspect the existence of bacteria & viruses.
People readily believed in all kinds of angels & funny fairies, dirty devils, speaking spooks,
glibbery ghosts, dim dwarfs, kind kobolds, single saints,
but they could not imagine that a tiny flea
or a single drop of water, spit or
blood might contain an
entire armada of
definitely deadly
predators
...
AFTER FAMINE,
HUMANITY'S SECOND GREAT
enemy was plagues & Infectious
Diseases! Bustling cities linked by
a ceaseless stream of merchants, officials
& pilgrims were both the bedrock of human civilisation
& an ideal breeding ground for pathogens? People consequently
lìved théir líves in ancient ATHENS or medieval FLORENCE knówing
that also THEY mìght Fàll ÌLL & díe nèxt wéék, òr that an epidemic might suddenly
erupt ànd destroy their entire family in òne swóóp! The most famous such outbreak,
the so-called BLACK DEATH, began in the 1330's, somewhat in east and/or central Asia,
when the flea-dwelling bacterium YERSINIA PESTIS started infecting humans bitten by the fleas!
From there, riding an army of rats & fleas, the plague quickly spread àll óver ASIA, EUROPE & North Africa,
taking less than 20 years to reach the shores of the Atlantic Ocean! Between 75 million & 200 million people died -
more than a quarter of the population of Eurasia! In England, four out of ten people died, & the population dropped
from a pre-plague high of 3,7 million people to a post-plague of 2,2 million?! The city of Florence lost 50.000 of its 100.000 inhabitants.
The authorities were completely helpless in the face of this kind of calamity!? Except for organising mass prayers & processions, they had nó idea how to stòp the spread of the epidemic - let alone cure it. Until the modern era, humans blamed diseases on bad air
(stinking stank!), malicious demons & angry gods, & did not suspect the existence of bacteria & viruses.
People readily believed in all kinds of angels & funny fairies, dirty devils, speaking spooks,
glibbery ghosts, dim dwarfs, kind kobolds, single saints,
but they could not imagine that a tiny flea
or a single drop of water, spit or
blood might contain an
entire armada of
definitely deadly
predators
...
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