Medieval Pandemics and Watford, Northamptonshire
What we see today is not as unique as we may think. Between 1000 and 500 years before now, epidemics were vastly more dangerous than they are today. Now, we benefit from the evolution of health standards and medicine. Some of this began after medieval epidemics. Common scourges back then included leprosy, smallpox, tuberculosis (or “consumption”), and of course, the plague, famously aka the Black Death, which in one of its three different forms presented symptoms similar t
