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DISPATCH #016
■ Dark History

The Plague That Killed Half of Rome

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Modern science has read those descriptions and cannot agree on what the disease was.

Smallpox. Measles. Something with no surviving equivalent. The data fits all of them. It confirms none of them. It left no biological trace behind.

We will probably never know what it was.

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