That’s right y’all… Today we’re talking the GMOAT: The GREATEST MORTALITY OF ALL TIME: BLACK DEATH. This episode we’ll cover the biology and history of one of the most epic diseases of all time- Yersinia pestis the causative agent of plague. It’s such an epic topic in fact, that you’ll have to tune in next week to catch up on the current status of plague around the world!
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Books | Articles |
| Kelly, John. The Great Mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death. (2006). | Perry, Robert D., and Jacqueline D. Fetherston. “Yersinia pestis–etiologic agent of plague.” Clinical microbiology reviews 10.1 (1997): 35-66. |
| Rosen, William. Justinian’s Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire. Penguin, 2007. | |
| McNeill, William Hardy, and William McNeill. Plagues and peoples. Anchor, 1998. | |
| Sherman, Irwin W. Twelve diseases that changed our world. Vol. 60. John Wiley & Sons, 2007. | |
| Cantor, Norman F. In the wake of the plague: the Black Death and the world it made. Simon and Schuster, 2001. | |
| Brooks, Geraldine. Year of Wonders: a novel of the plague. Penguin, 2002. | |
| Defoe, Daniel. A journal of the plague year. Vol. 9. D. Estes & Company, 1904. |
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