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Topic: Plague

Workers in hazmat suits dig graves for those who dies due to COVID-19 (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

The historical trauma of COVID

Matthew Rozsa
Muslim pilgrims walk around the Kaaba (Tawaf al-Wadaa), Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on February 27, 2020. (Abdel Ghani Bashir/AFP via Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia suspends umrah pilgrimage

Ken Chitwood - The Conversation
This June 27, 2006, file photo, shows a 17th century costumed role player, who called himself Samuel Fuller, in a 1627 Pilgrim Village at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

How the pilgrims survived

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation
(Associated Press)

There's something in the water — plague!

David Markman - The Conversation
(Wikimedia Commons)

Lindsay Abrams
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Alex Pasternack - Popular Science

Salon Staff
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