Alive Quote by Alan Huffman

“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The…

— Nancy Farmer

“But the bubonic plague never went away entirely. It still exists today. The World Health Organization reports that in 2013 there were 783 cases…

— Jennifer Wright

“No comparable mortality had been experienced since the bubonic plague nearly five hundred years before, and modern medical science stood impotent before the pestilence.”

— Joseph E. Persico

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

— Hendrik Poinar

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

— Jeri Ryan

“That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a…

— Douglas Preston

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful…

— Wilhelm Reich

In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who…

— Wilfred Burchett

“Krause and his team unearthed the evolution of Yersinia pestis, and the genomic tracks of its terrible journey. An earlier study had shown that,…

— Adam Rutherford

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash…

— Albert Camus

“Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918–1919, some 50 million people were killed by something far too small to even see, let alone hunt and destroy.…

— Bill Nye