Accompanied by Professor Renaud Piarroux, head of department at the Pitié Salpêtrière (AP-HP), specialist in infectious diseases, we delve into the history of epidemics, from prehistory to the end of Antiquity. Today, we tell you about the very first pandemic, which started in the heart of Constantinople.
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation and writing), Léa Bertrand (editing) and Jules Krot (direction).
Credits: INA, HBO, Studiocanal, France 24, City of Science and Industry
Music and design: Emmanuel Herschon / Studio Torrent
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Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain / Benjamin Chazal
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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.
If you haven’t missed any of the episodes of this series, you know that we talked about the Plague of Athens, the Antonine Plague and the Plague of Cyprian. And yet, none of them were real plague, the one that reminds us of the doctor’s mask with the long nose.
Today, we are finally talking about this bacteria. And for our last conversation with Renaud Piarroux, epidemic specialist and head of department at the Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris, we are going to Constantinople.
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