Ebola Rages in West Africa, Reigniting Humanity’s Oldest Fear: The Plague

The Ebola scare may be new, but panic over the plague—and the cultural fetishization of it—goes back centuries. The Angel of Death had a really good agent.

Scott Bixby

Published Aug. 4 2014 5:45AM EDT 

Scott Bixby

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