Were the English Sweating Sickness and the Picardy Sweat Caused by Hantaviruses?
The English sweating sickness caused five devastating epidemics between 1485 and 1551, England was hit hardest, but on one occasion also mainland Europe, with mortality rates between 30% and 50%. The Picardy sweat emerged about 150 years after the English sweat disappeared, in 1718, in France. It ca...
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MDPI AG
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Viruses |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/6/1/151 |