How the bubonic plague changed drinking habits: Engraving of a man drinking plague water during the 1665 London outbreak. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-NC-SA Alcohol deaths in England and Wales in 2020 were the highest for 20 years. The Office for National Statistics recorded 7,423 deaths from alcohol misuse, a 19.6% increase compared with 2019. Although …
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Contact tracing: how physicians used it 500 years ago to control the bubonic plague: Dance of Death, Michael Wolgemut (1493). Wikimedia Contact tracing has been remarkably successful at helping contain the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, Australia and Germany, as well as some smaller places. Using 21st-century systems of telecommunications and surveillance, healthcare workers in …