[LadyDoc]

There is some evidence the plague of Athens was typhoid, and the Antoinine plague was smallpox. Historically smallpox was a bigger killer then black plague.

but too often news articles go in for ‘sexy’ diseases like plague or ebola to get headlines.

as for plague...I always thought the epidemic with “hemorrhoids” that affected the Philistines when they stole the ark of the covenant was plague.

and one epidemic that depopulated Mexico in the 1500s was not brought by the Spanish, but a hemorrhagic virus that had struck there in an epidemic before Columbus...

[LadyDoc]

Add to my previous post....Ebola is a hemorrhagic virus, but not the only one, and it was’t in Mexico...

[Tax-chick]

There is some evidence the plague of Athens was typhoid ...

I thought I'd read that.

The Southwest and Mexico have a number of native hemorrhagic viruses; this is sometimes overlooked in the rush to blame Europeans for every epidemic.