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La peste (plaga) de Atenas

2018 
espanolEn esta resena historica se trata el tema de la peste que sego la vida de miles de atenienses entre los anos 430-426 a.C. entre ellas la del estadista Pericles. El historiografo Tucidides narra en algunos pasajes un episodio que vivio y padecio en primera persona. Parece ser una epidemia atribuida a la bacteria Salmonella enterica. En este breve paseo por una etapa de la Historia de Grecia, Tucidides intuye en sus textos los conceptos de contagio e inmunidad narrando de manera objetiva los signos y sintomas que observo. EnglishIn this historical we have reviewedthe subject of the plague that harvested the lives of thousands of Athenians between the years 430-426 a.C. among them the statistician Pericles. The historiographer Thucydides narrates in some passages an episode that he lived and suffered in the first person. It is an epidemic attributed to the bacterium Salmonella enterica. In this brief walk through a stage of the History of Greece, Thucydides intuits in his texts the concepts of contagion and immunity by objectively narrating the signs and symptoms he observed.
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