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Black death

Unequal by the gun: Four decades of the Black-White firearm homicide gap

Alex Knorre, John MacDonald

published 25 Feb 2026

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What the landscape can tell: An integrative stratigraphic prospection approach to localize a Black Death mass grave in Erfurt/Central Germany

Michael Hein, Nik Usmar, Annabell Engel, Johannes Rabiger-Völlmer, Johannes Schmidt, Matthias Silbermann, Marco Pohle, Iris Nießen, Martin Offermann, Lukas Werther, Birgit Schneider, Christian Tannhäuser, Alexander Herbig, Jan Nováček, Ulrike Werban, Martin Bauch, Christoph Zielhofer

published 07 Jan 2026

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Simple discrete-time self-exciting models can describe complex dynamic processes: A case study of COVID-19

Raiha Browning, Deborah Sulem, Kerrie Mengersen, Vincent Rivoirard, Judith Rousseau

published 09 Apr 2021

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Mortality and demographic recovery in early post-black death epidemics: Role of recent emigrants in medieval Dijon

Pierre Galanaud, Anne Galanaud, Patrick Giraudoux, Henri Labesse

published 22 Jan 2020

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Methods for calculating credible intervals for ratios of beta distributions with application to relative risks of death during the second plague pandemic

Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar, Thomas J. R. Finnie, Barney Sloane, Ian M. Hall

published 22 Feb 2019

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Do black lives matter in public health research and training?

Molly Rosenberg, Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, Ashley Townes, Angela M. Bengtson

published 10 Oct 2017

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Mortality Risk and Survival in the Aftermath of the Medieval Black Death

Sharon N. DeWitte

published 07 May 2014

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Yersinia pestis: New Evidence for an Old Infection

Kirsten I. Bos, Philip Stevens, Kay Nieselt, Hendrik N. Poinar, Sharon N. DeWitte, Johannes Krause

published 28 Nov 2012

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High Throughput, Multiplexed Pathogen Detection Authenticates Plague Waves in Medieval Venice, Italy

Thi-Nguyen-Ny Tran, Michel Signoli, Luigi Fozzati, Gérard Aboudharam, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt

published 10 Mar 2011

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Cause of Death Affects Racial Classification on Death Certificates

Andrew Noymer, Andrew M. Penner, Aliya Saperstein

published 26 Jan 2011

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Validation of Inverse Seasonal Peak Mortality in Medieval Plagues, Including the Black Death, in Comparison to Modern Yersinia pestis-Variant Diseases

Mark R. Welford, Brian H. Bossak

published 22 Dec 2009

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