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This episode contains discussions of death by contagious disease.

I want to emphasize that the plague is very treatable today with antibiotics, so there's no need to panic over this disease.

After this advice, if contagious disease is still something you don't want to hear about, this may be a good episode to skip. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.

Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.

I am one of those people.

My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.

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The Today, plague is a term that breeds fear as well as fascination.

It means sickness, devastation, and sorrow.

The plague is used to denote a dangerous, contagious

disease, but also several periods of history in which the populations of the world were devastated

by a disease they could neither identify nor treat. Then and now, the plague is something that

people fear without really understanding.

Most people only associate the plague with the black death, a pandemic event that took hold of

Europe in the 1300s. But the plague has been around for much longer and still exists today,

though it's now treatable thanks to the wonders of modern

medicine. Still without treatment, the plague is often fatal, and in the past, it wrought havoc

and ruin upon the people of Europe, Asia and Africa. In this two-part episode, I want to talk

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