Where do we find this stuff? Here are our sources:
“Was Humanity Born in the Mother of all Plagues”, Michael Marshall, The New Scientist (June 4, 2012)
“Ancient Plague May Have Wiped Out Stone Age Farmers in Europe”, Josh Gabbatiss, The Independent (December 6, 2018)
“Plagues and People”, William H. McNeill, Anchor Books (1976)
“Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues”, Hans Zinsser, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (1996)
“DNA Examination of Ancient Dental Pulp Incriminates Typhoid Fever as a Probable Cause of the Plague of Athens”, M.J. Papagrigorakis, C. Yapijakis, P.N. Synodinos, and E. Baziotopoulou-Valavani, International Journal of Infectious Diseases (2006)
“Galen and the Antonine Plague”, R.J. Littman and M.L. Littman, American Journal of Philology (1973)
“The Plague Under Marcus Aurelius”, J.F. Gilliam, American Journal of Philology (July 1961)
“Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Roman Plague”, Kyle Harper, The Atlantic (November 1, 2017)
“The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire”, Kyle Harper, Princeton University Press (2017)
“Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750”, Lester K. Little, Cambridge University Press (2006)
“Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World’s Most Dangerous Disease”, Wendy Orent. Simon & Schuster (2004)
“Encyclopaedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present”, George C. Kohn, Infobase Publishing (2002)
“The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History”, Donald R. Hopkins, University of Chicago Press (2002)
“The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History”, Ole J. Benedictow, Boydell Press (2012)
“In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made”, Norman Cantor, Harper Perennial (2002)
“Disease Outbreaks in Central Mexico During the Sixteenth Century”, Hanns Prem, in “Secret Judgements of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America”, David Noble Cook and George W. Lovell, University of Oklahoma Press (1991)
“The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico 1519-1810”, Charles Gibson, Stanford University Press (1964)
“Manitou and Providence”, Neal Salisbury, Oxford University Press (1982)
“Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History”, J.N. Hays, ABC-CLIO (2005)
“Epidemics Resulting from Wars”, Friedrich Prinzing, Buchanan Press (2009)
“The Great Plague in London in 1665”, Walter George Bell, AMS Press (2001)
“The Plague and the Fire”, James Leasor, George Allen and Unwin (1962)
“Plague: An Ancient Disease in the Twentieth Century”, Charles T. Gregg, University of New Mexico (1985)
“The Last Plague in the Baltic Region, 1709-1713”, Karl-Erik Frandsen, Museum Tusculanum Press (2010)
“Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History”, Brn Barnard, Crown Publishers (2005)
“Plague and Pestilence: A History of Infectious Disease”, Linda Jacobs Altman, Enslow Publishing (1998)
“Seeking Hope, They Found Death“, Rene Bruemmer, Montreal Gazette (May 30, 2009)
“The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship”, James Mangan, Mercier Press (1994)
“Epidemiology of the Russian flu, 1889-1890”, Michelle Ziegler (January 3, 2011)
“The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Great Plague in History”, J.M. Barry, Viking Penguin Publishing (2005)
“Epidemic and Peace: 1918”, A.W. Crosby, Greenwood Press (1976)
“Mass Mediated Disease: A Case Study Analysis of Three Flu Pandemics and Public Health Policy”, Debra E. Blakely, Lexington Books (2006)