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Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsToday, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without being linked to animals. So how did the rat become the symbol of one of his...
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026) is an episode from New Books in Sociology by New Books Network. Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisi...
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Published May 30, 2026, 49:11 long, audio available.
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