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My Favorite China Plague Headlines

By Stan

Somehow I get the feeling that the press is enjoying this whole plague story just a little too much. Sure, it’s a virulent bug, but if treated with anti-biotics, the mortality rate is pretty low.

But there is something strangely compelling about the Black Death in a nostalgic, Chaucerian way. Who doesn’t enjoy reading an article that contains the words Yersinia pestis, Rattus rattus, or Xenopsylla cheopis?

Personally, all this takes me back to those halcyon days at university — where I sat in a dingy classroom and listened to history lectures about the Black Death. Well, maybe it wasn’t that much fun in retrospect, but at least I was younger then.

Anyway, I think all of us can enjoy some of these wonderful plague headlines put forward by the professional editor class. Here are a few of the good ones:
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Full post as published by China Hearsay on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).