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Boffins ID bug behind London's Great Plague of 1665

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Re: I thought this one was fairly clear to be "proper" plague

Without being an expert in the field it was my understanding that Ebola was one of a number of viral haemorrhagic fevers?

Indeed it is, but they weren't what Olson proposed in his 1996 paper to which I referred. It was the first of many papers proposing that the Athens plague was most likely Ebola.

Ebola in Antiquity?

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