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Heroic sacrifice or tragic mistake? Revisiting the Eyam plague, 350 years on
Author(s) -
Didelot Xavier
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00961.x
Subject(s) - plague (disease) , mistake , quarantine , sacrifice , history , ancient history , criminology , law , biology , political science , sociology , archaeology , ecology
When plague struck the village of Eyam in the year 1665, a quarantine was imposed. A third of the residents succumbed to the disease, but was it an effective control measure? Xavier Didelot investigates