![]() Because of the incubation period of certain diseases and the ignorance about how microscopic viruses traveled, no one could understand the slow-moving catastrophe. ![]() ![]() Then their loved ones would be exposed to them before they were buried, causing more sickness and death. If such scapegoating sounds unlikely, consider life during those medically primitive times. Blood flowed out of the monster as if it were a “leech filled with the blood of many persons” with the monster defeated, “the pestilence which was rife among the people ceased.” The offending creature, which came out of his grave at night, was eventually dug up and stabbed by two brothers “who had lost their father by this plague,” Newburgh wrote. William of Newburgh, a medieval English historian, recorded one account of a town devastated by such a monster, who was accused of filling “every house with disease and death by its pestiferous breath.” Some of the earliest accounts date back to 11th- and 12th-century Europe when outbreaks of tuberculosis, rabies and other diseases were blamed, in part, on vampires. ![]()
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