This is Charles University in Praha (Prague), said to be the oldest in Europe.A year later The Plague arrived in England via a Dorset port, and proceeded to remove large numbers of the population.
A repeating tale through most of western Europe between 1347-1351, estimated to have killed one third of the population. I started thinking of the 75 million or so believed to have died after having an odd conversation with a nurse. Obviously just returned from a important meeting re the war on flu pandemics. She wondered what I was doing to prepare for Avian flu?
Nothing , with less interest, was probably not the response she was expecting. The SARS history of Toronto has made this the centre of alcohol gel and and huge precautions for for MRSA in the emergency room, which weaken considerably before the patients are returned to their retirement castles, which seem designed to pass these things around.
People get ill and die despite the best advances of modern medicine.
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i think we forget that we are supposed to die at some point. Nature is self-regulating...too many of anything and there's a pandemic.
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