What is it about?
This article explores the black death/bubonic plague and the likelihood that some ethnic groups in Europe, especially Jews and Moors, carried a genetic mutation that increased their ability to fight off the plague and survive it.
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I co-authored this article with Kathryn Glatter, M.D., who is who is currently a Ph.D. student in the Holocaust and Genocide Program at Gratz College, in Greater Philadelphia. It combines modern medical science with Medieval Jewish history.
Paul Finkelman
Gratz College
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This page is a summary of: History of the Plague: An Ancient Pandemic for the Age of COVID-19, The American Journal of Medicine, February 2021, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.08.019.
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