Western Civ Blog 35

Today on our online western civ class we had to compare the plague that hit Athens during the Peloponnesian War with COVID-19. The plague was an epidemic that devastated the city-state of Athens. It occurred in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War. The plague was called Typhus. It raged for 4 years and it resulted in the defeat of Athens. It was an infectious diseases most often cited as causes of the plague include influenza, epidemic typhus, typhoid fever, bubonic plague, smallpox, and measles. Some symptoms for the corona virus are fever, tiredness, and dry cough. Typhus and Coronavirus both have a fever as one of the symptoms. They are both deadly epidemics. Both coronavirus and typhus can go away without medicines over time. Both of the epidemics were started due to some sort of animal/bug.