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The history of epidemics is an ever fascinating area; the 14th century Black Death is just the most famous epidemic historically (see Chapter 13, Volume II, which deals with the spatial spread of epidemics, for a brief history of it). In Europe, which had a population of around 85 million at the time, about a third of the population died.
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Murray, J.D. (1993). Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Epidemic Models and AIDS. In: Murray, J.D. (eds) Mathematical Biology. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 17. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22437-4_10
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