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How they fought back against the Black Death
The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, was a serious epidemic that ravaged Europe in the 14th century. The epidemic was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which...
A Danish historical medical birth registry will reveal diseases
Denmark is facing a new advance in medical research with the development of a new digital registry, called the Historical Medical Birth Registry, supported by Novo Nordisk...
Leprosy ravaged Norway
Few people realize that leprosy was a widespread disease in 19th century Norway. Cases of infected people were registered right into the 20th century, but...
Theories about the origin of the “Spanish flu”
In a previous article about the "Spanish Flu", we wrote that we will probably never know where the disease started. An excellent article in...
