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Plagues

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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Knowledge, attitude and practices among Healthcare Workers towards Pulmonary Plague Infection following an outbreak in Madagascar, 2017: A pilot study

Inessa Markus, Lynn Meurs, Rebekah Wood, Vaoary Razafimbia, Andrianasolo Radonirina, Delphin Kolie, Rapelerano Rabenja Fahafahantsoa, Alexandre Delamou, Jan Walter, Matthias Borchert, Thomas Paerisch

published 05 Dec 2025

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Comparative SIR/SEIR modeling of the Antonine Plague in Rome

Anestis Karasaridis, Aleš Chalupa

published 13 Feb 2025

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John Cross, epidemic theory, and mathematically modeling the Norwich smallpox epidemic of 1819

Connor D. Olson, Timothy C. Reluga

published 13 Nov 2024

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The final plague outbreak in Scotland 1644–1649: Historical, archaeological, and genetic evidence

Jenna Dittmar, Rebecca Crozier, Toni de-Dios, Christiana L. Scheib, Jackson W. Armstrong, Jenny Pape, Ross MacLennan, Ricky Craig, Marc Oxenham

published 13 Nov 2024

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Alpine salamanders at risk? The current status of an emerging fungal pathogen

Philipp Böning, Stefan Lötters, Benedetta Barzaghi, Marvin Bock, Bobby Bok, Lucio Bonato, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Florian Glaser, Josline Griese, Markus Grabher, Camille Leroux, Gopikrishna Munimanda, Raoul Manenti, Gerda Ludwig, Doris Preininger, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Sebastian Seibold, Steve Smith, Laura Tiemann, Jürgen Thein, Michael Veith, Amadeus Plewnia

published 17 May 2024

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Using cementochronology to assess the seasonality of catastrophic events in medieval mass graves (Kutná Hora-Sedlec, Czechia, 14^th century): Preliminary results

Eliška Zazvonilová, Hana Brzobohatá, Jan Frolík, Petr Velemínský, Jaroslav Brůžek

published 13 Dec 2023

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Milan’s forgotten epidemic of summer 1629, a few months before the last great plague: An investigation into the possible cause

Massimo Galli, Letizia Oreni, Anna Lisa Ridolfo, Angelo Formenti, Ester Luconi, Patrizia Boracchi, Spinello Antinori, Elia Biganzoli, Folco Vaglienti

published 08 Jun 2023

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Retrospective analysis of dissemination of the 2.MED1 phylogenetic branch of Yersinia pestis in the Caucasus

Galina A. Eroshenko, Alina N. Balykova, Konstantin A. Nikiforov, Yaroslav M. Krasnov, Lyubov M. Kukleva, Ekaterina A. Naryshkina, Alexander A. Kuznetsov, Nikolay V. Popov, Vladimir V. Kutyrev

published 29 Mar 2023

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Assembling a safe and effective toolbox for integrated flea control and plague mitigation: Fipronil experiments with prairie dogs

David Eads, Travis Livieri, Tyler Tretten, John Hughes, Nick Kaczor, Emily Halsell, Shaun Grassel, Phillip Dobesh, Eddie Childers, David Lucas, Lauren Noble, Michele Vasquez, Anna Catherine Grady, Dean Biggins

published 08 Aug 2022

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London parochial burial records from 1563 to 1665 indicate higher plague death rates for males than females: Some possible demographic and social explanations

Xavier Didelot, Charles Morris Evans

published 05 Aug 2022

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Barbarigenesis and the collapse of complex societies: Rome and after

Doug Jones

published 16 Sep 2021

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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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