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History of Quarantine
Venice establishes the world's first institutionalized system of quarantine, giving a council ... The act comes in the midst of the Black Death, a plague epidemic that eventually takes the lives ...
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In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the World it Made
The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague ... And some cities uh, in…in large cities in Europe tried quarantine. That was a favorite European approach to epidemics. Ben: One of the ...
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13 Facts About the Black Death
The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between one-third and two-thirds of the entire population. But it wasn’t all ...
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From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have killed up to ... knowledge – they had never heard of antibiotics or quarantine. This meant that the plague killed around 90 ...