Ebola in Antiquity?

An epidemic that occurred in Athens in 430 bce had clinical and epidemiologic features that resemble Ebola today. The historian Thucydides reminds us that society's panic-stricken responses to pestilences intensify the damage and devastation directly caused by the disease itself.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Clinical Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2015-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/cid/civ418PMID 26033924PMCID 7314171
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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