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119年前,也是在这个炎热的8月,顶级医学杂志《柳叶刀》(The Lancet)发表了一篇论文The Bacillus 0f BubonicPlague,直译就是《鼠疫杆菌》,多一个字都没有。一望可知,这和时下论文标题的路数完全不同,淳朴得简直有点过分。可就是这个干巴巴的题目,揭开了一个曾经困扰人类上千年的谜题:不是空气不干净,不是外地人可疑,更不是犹太人作孽,鼠疫杆菌才是鼠疫真正的源头!死神之舞公元542年。公元1346年。公元1855年。这三个看似无关的年头,却都被同一根历史的暗线串了起来:鼠疫大流行。第一次大流行的起点,对应着中国的南北朝时代。拜占庭帝国(即东罗马帝国)的皇帝查士丁尼一世(Justinian I),梦想着恢复对西罗马故土的统治,重现罗马帝国的荣光,但居然被这次疫情断送了。有未经证实的记录说,埃及粮船带着瘟疫而来,最恐怖的时候,首都君士坦丁堡每天都会死1万人以上,因为没有足够的
119 years ago, also in this hot August, the top medical magazine The Lancet published a paper called The Bacillus 0f BubonicPlague, literally “Yersinia pestis,” without one word at all. At a glance, this is completely different from the number of essay titles in the world at present, which is quite simplistic. It is this dry topic, opened a puzzle that once haunted mankind for thousands of years: not the air is not clean, not from outsiders suspicious, nor is it Jewish iniquity, Yersinia pestis is the true source of the plague! Dance of Death AD 542 year. Year 1346. 1855 ad. The three seemingly unrelated years, but have been the same dark line of history together: plague pandemic. The starting point of the first pandemic corresponds to the era of China’s Northern and Southern Dynasties. Justinian I, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire), dreamed of restoring the rule of the land in the West and reproducing the glory of the Roman Empire, but was actually sent off by this epidemic. There are unconfirmed records that Egyptian grain ships come with the plague. In the most horrifying time, the capital, Constantinople, will die more than 10,000 people every day because there is not enough