Listening to a #podcast about Cardinal #Richelieu I may have read the Three Musketeers a few times. #BooksofMastodon #history #historymastodon #France

Victorian Christmas cards / thoughts about them, a 🧵. Share your faves below, I’d love to see! #victorian #historytwitter #victorianist #historymastodon #christmas

Victorian Christmas cards / thoughts about them, a 🧵. Share your faves below, I’d love to see! #victorian #historytwitter #victorianist #historymastodon #christmas

Follow us as we look into the history of local adverts. Find the latest videos at www.youtube.com/@sellingthepast #localhistory #bath #bathengland #HistoryMastodon #history

Hey, #MedMastodon #HistoryMastodon #MedHistory, got a question for you!

So my med students seem to enjoy my end-of-class babbling on medical history/oddities to the point that they are now demanding it (I have made it clear they wont get any extra credit because of this and still they insist so I assume their interest is sincere 😂 ).
I usually say ok and ask for a subject. This week they suggested the #BlackDeath (don't ask why).
So I mushed together a few ideas. I concluded with the interaction of #Yersinia pestis and #FMF, bringing the subject back on track (#ClinicalImmunology).

Now I was reviewing some facts and I saw this paper (10.1136/pgmj.2004.024075) by Duncan and Smith on the #PostgraduateMedicalJournal #PMJ. They make quite a case for the underlying cause of the #Plague being some sort of virus, possibly a haemorrhagic fever.
One of the arguments is the selection of yet another variant that might protect against disease - in their proposed model its CCR5-delta32 which protects against HIV-1 and seems to have had a substancial boost in prevalence during the same period of the Bubonic Plague.

I had never heard of this. I found a lot of news reports from the early 2000s on this but seems to have faded away since then as a theory.

I still found it very interesting. Does anyone have any new information on this?
I am aware of the recent isolation of Y pestis and the 2022 Nature paper, but could these two agents not have coexisted, for instance?

Hello. Hack scientist. Here to read smart people raging at the moon. And #HistoryMastodon

By way of #introduction, here goes: I’m a freelance #writer in upstate New York, doing a lot of #film discussion these days for Lifehacker. Local radio host. #History nerd, occasional actor, occasional comedian. #Gay, married, dog dad. Hey, y’all.

#doglife #queer #HistoryMastodon #travel

@smitty I couldn't agree more. I am 41 years old and I can honestly say this is so peaceful just like being on AOL chat rooms.
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