[MR] looking for plague research

[M. Brett]

It's specialized, but a very excellent book I read recently was  
"Scotland's Black Death" - it focuses on the epidemic in Scotland in  
the 14th c, but in one of the early chapters the author uses mondern  
epidemiological concepts to analyze what the disease was - and  
postulates that (in Scotland at least) it was more likely Pneuomic  
plague, as opposed to Bubonic.

A slightly tangential take, related to hemmoragic fevers, was an  
article in a recent Discover magazine, wherein a team of scientists  
think that the Aztecs were killed off not by New World smallpox, but  
by an old world fever. A different article on the same team is here:  
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556246/posts

Let us know if you find anything!

Yours In Service,

Ana Beig de Rosslyn

On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Karen Setze wrote:

> Another source that has at least some discussion of
> plague is "Disease in History". Unfortunately, I don't
> recall the author.
>
> Yseulte
>
> --- Stacie Larson <csrpnt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> You might also check the bibliography for "The Great
>> Mortality" by John
>> Kelly.  I believe he's a science reporter, so he
>> covers quite a lot of
>> the biology (better at that than historian).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cecily
>>
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