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       Pandemics: waves of disease, waves of hate from the Plague of
       Athens to A.I.D.S.
   DIR By: Masked Man
       Date: January 11, 2026, 8:53 pm
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       While not a documentary this looks like it be an intriguing
       article/study of historical significance..
       Pandemics: waves of disease, waves of hate from the Plague of
       Athens to A.I.D.S.*
       Samuel K Cohn 1
       SUMMARY:
       This article briefly surveys the history of pandemics in the
       West, contesting long-held assumptions that epidemics sparked
       hatred and blame of the ‘Other’, and that it was worse when
       diseases were mysterious as to their causes and cures. The
       article finds that blame and hate were rarely connected with
       pandemics in history. In antiquity, epidemics more often brought
       societies together rather than dividing them as continued to
       happen with some diseases such as influenza in modernity. On the
       other hand, some diseases such as cholera were more regularly
       blamed than others and triggered violence even after their
       agents and mechanisms of transmission had become well known.”
       LINK:
  HTML https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4422154/
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