AI: Bubonic Plague, Smallpox, and Tuberculosis (TB) Compared: Epidemics and Diseases
“How many valiant men, how many fair ladies, breakfast with their kinfolk and the same night supped with their ancestors in the next world! The condition of the people was pitiable to behold. They sickened by the thousands daily, and died unattended and without help. Many died in the open street, others dying in their houses, made it known by the stench of their rotting bodies.” — Giovanni Boccaccio
“The pestilence of the smallpox, which had for so many centuries been filling the grave-yards of the world with countless millions of victims, and leaving the survivors disfigured and blinded, was now to disappear forever from the earth.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Consumption [tuberculosis] is a disease peculiar to the human race, and it has caused more havoc and destruction than all the wars, plagues, and famines combined.” – Robert Koch