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History of Epidemics in China

Sat, 2009-11-07 16:00 — Robyn

Throughout history, people have gotten sick. But the only information we have about these illnesses comes from modern researchers piecing together the evidence - bones, art and the occasional description of illness in an old manuscript. But in China, community records have been kept for millennia and in those records are a history of epidemics.

There has been a tradition in China for people to write the story of the places where they lived. Scribes and clerks wrote about everyday life, as well as about unusual occurrences weather, crop failures or successes, wars and migrations. These records were kept for more than two thousand years, from one ruling dynasty to another.

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