Download Article. To the Editor: The plague of Athens (430-427/425 B.C.) persists as one of the great medical mysteries of antiquity . Sometimes termed ?the Thucydides syndrome ...

Ebola Deja Vu? (CDC-EID)-- Letter to the editor of "Emerging Infectious Diseases" suggesting that the Athenian plague described by Thucydides may have been an early outbreak of ...

Indeed, whereas Thucydides used nosos, the term plague, which is used by all the ... National Center for Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease Control and ...

... plague himself, Thucydides ... Thucydides, 11, 51, 5 and Procopius, Wars II, 22, 23. 38 For information on the plague reservoirs, see the Center for Disease Control Internet site http://www.cdc.gov ...

... generalized aches and pains, fever, lethargy, [the CDC adds: "in some cases ... How does this compare with Thucydides? description of the plague? As a rule, however, there was no ...

Thanks to the writings of Thucydides, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been able to use retrodiagnosis to speculate on the true nature of The Plague of ...

In the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 B.C.), Thucydides ... Communicable Disease Surveillance & Response - Impact of plague & Information resources; Centers for Disease Control ...

... vividly described by the historian Thucydides, himself a survivor of the illness, the plague ... chief epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides ...

... had a serious impact on the tide of infection. 9 6 Centers for Disease Control ... already come to Europe seems to rest on identifying Thucydides? description of the Athenian plague ...

An outline is given below of how the CDC (Centers for Disease Control, USA) responded ... Here follows a translation of an extract from Thucydides 2.47-55: The Plague.