[Ansteorra] Question about researching historic pathogens

[Ely]

I'm looking more into venereal diseases, the other plague. Some of which also can cause the skin eruptions. Still interesting?
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Mike Andrews <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:21:45AM -0600, Elyssa Hoffman wrote:
>> I'm working on a couple of interesting cases this weekend that I might
>> seek permission to write educational papers on. ( CE or CEU's for
>> those in the medical field.) I posted awhile back about Yersinia
>> pestis and there was enough interest for several posts to occur. The
>> question I have today is: Is there enough interest and information in
>> Medievil medicine to do a reseach project on other pathogens that
>> "plagued" the time period. Or has this already been done to death? I
>> figured if I can write I paper on the clock and get paid for it I
>> could continue it for SCA fun.
>> Elyssa de Orozco
>> aka Mad Labr
>
>I think it is a magnificent idea! Even if Y. pestis and its changes in
>virulence (and, of course, its role in various plagues) have been done to
>death -- which I think is not the case -- I haven't seen any papers on the
>great plagues in the SCA context.
>
>Have you ever thought about "leprosy", and what various disease(s) it
>might have been? I somehow suspect that it wasn't just Hansen's Disease
>(from Mycobacterium leprae/lepromatosis). The Talmud, e.g., appears to
>argue that tzaraath, translated to Greek as "leprae", and thence to the
>English "leprosy", referred generally to any disease that produces sores
>and eruptions on the skin.
>
>I'd like to forward your post, with comments, to the Ansteorra-Laurels and
>SCA-Laurels lists.
>
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