Plagues with John Green!

Would it really be a conversation about plagues if noted plague-hater and tuberculosis-fighter John Green wasn't a part of it? In this episode John makes his Tangents debut at last, and we dig deep into whether we could fight an old, fat beaver and win, among other things.
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[Truth or Fail Express]
Hunter-gatherer from 5000 years ago infected with plague
livescience.com/5000-year-old-man-had-plague.h…
medicalnewstoday.com/articles/oldest-strain-of…
Isaac Newton plague cure
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sir-isaac-newton…
atlasobscura.com/articles/isaac-newton-plague
Sewer pipes in Hanoi let plague-bearing rats breed
feralatlas.supdigital.org/poster/colonial-sewe…
atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1…
[The Scientific Definition]
Four thieves vinegar
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7485289
nutritionalgeography.faculty.ucdavis.edu/clove
si.edu/es/object/die-mondsuchtigen:nmah_994026
The Vicary method / The live chicken treatment
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1472106
muse.jhu.edu/article/665487
libguides.umn.edu/healthmisinformation
Zenexton
jstor.org/stable/44444207
archive.org/details/b30341681/page/n7/mode/2up
[Ask the Science Couch]
HIV resistance through genetic mutation and selective pressure (possibly from plagues)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1377146
jmg.bmj.com/content/42/3/205
nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15…
sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC299980
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16880184

Plague doctors probably didn’t look like birds (until later / after theater)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_F%C3%BCrst,_…).png
deathscent.com/2020/05/15/the-redolent-plague-…
livescience.com/plague-doctors.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Using pastes made with human feces to treat bubonic plague
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/04/medieval-pandemic-cu…
hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed/plague

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