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For more insight on this, WW, you might want to read Albert Camus' great novel, The Plague,
about an outbreak that devastates the port city of Oran, Algeria and its psychological
affects on the inhabitants there. Regarded by many as one of the top ten novels of the 20th
century.Just six posts up, Geoff! 
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I've had a reply from Paul Halsall. He said it was probably a scanning error and was most likely to be bathing, but suggested looking up Procopius's work in the Loeb edition to make sure. So, does anyone have access to a decent library?
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Dear Bingley: I found a site about Procopius, but get error message "server not found"
1.Procopius of Caesarea (490?-560?) - text of his "The Secret History," which concerns the
reign of the Roman emperor Justinian.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/procop-anec.html
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Thanks for investigating this, Bingley. Bathing makes more sense than any of the other suppositions. No substantiating citation yet, though.
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I looked up the Procopius passage in the Loeb edition in Blackwell's in Oxford. It has bathing. I suppose I should have checked the Greek text, but I took the Loeb translator's word for it as it makes sense in the context.
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I picked up a book about pandemics while I was in the States for $1 at a bookshop in Canyon, Texas. And I left it in a motel somewhere between there and Atlanta.
However, it did discuss the plague of Athens in some detail. Chicken pox, measles, mumps and a number of other now well-known and rarely-fatal diseases (including a virulent form of thrush) were considered and rejected for various reasons. The only thing the research quoted in the book seems to agree on for certain is that it wasn't bubonic plague. And I seem to remember a figure of 20-25 million being given for the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, although I don't believe the author stated that as a definitive range. It was, rather a conservative estimate. Could have been higher.
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