Accompanied by Professor Renaud Piarroux, head of department at Pitié Salpêtrière (AP-HP), specialist in infectious diseases, we delve into the history of epidemics, from prehistory to the end of Antiquity. Today, we are interested in the formation of microbes and their consequences for our prehistoric ancestor.
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation and writing), Léa Bertrand (editing) and Jules Krot (direction).
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Charlotte Baris: The Black Death, the Spanish Flu, Cholera and even Covid… epidemics have marked our history, often reduced to medieval representations. However, they allow us to understand the pandemics we can face today. Through five major historical periods of Antiquity, we take you to discover the birth of epidemics.
This series was written with Professor Renaud Piarroux. He is an epidemiologist, head of department at the Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris. A few weeks ago, he was in Mayotte, to investigate the cholera that has made a comeback in the archipelago. On a daily basis, he traces the epidemics that are surfacing today. But to understand them, he was interested in their entire history, going back thousands of years.
He is the one who will guide us during these five episodes, to understand how our evolution is linked to that of diseases. And to begin our discussion, he suggested laying the scientific foundations
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