Researched and Written by Leila Battison
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Art by Khail Kupsky
Thumbnail Art and Art by Ettore Mazza

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Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.

References:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topic…​
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/…​
https://www.ft.com/content/8009dad5-9…​
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article…​
https://www.ancient.eu/Antonine_Plague/​

https://elifesciences.org/articles/12704​
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic…​
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/201…​
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/exter…​

Image credits:

Roman relief By Rabax63 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Surgical Roman instruments By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/…​ https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/…​ Collection gallery (2018-04-02): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/…​ CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Antonine Plague By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/…​ https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/…​ Collection gallery (2018-04-03): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/…​ CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Smallpox Virus De Dr Graham Beards at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Mimivirus By Sarah Duponchel and Matthias G. Fischer – extracted from this Commons file, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Coccoliphore By Robin Mejia. Image courtesy Dr. Alison Taylor. – [1] doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001087, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

coccolithophores virus by By DHRUVA SRINIVAS – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Diversity of coccolithophores By Monteiro, F.M., Bach, L.T., Brownlee, C., Bown, P., Rickaby, R.E., Poulton, A.J., Tyrrell, T., Beaufort, L., Dutkiewicz, S., Gibbs, S. and Gutowska, M.A. – https://advances.sciencemag.org/conte…​, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Coccolithophore By ja:User:NEON / commons:User:NEON_ja – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Human Genome Project By National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA – Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Eckard Wimmer By SummerWillow – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Pythovirus By Pavel Hrdlička, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​

Electron Bacteriophages By Dr Graham Beards – en:Image:Phage.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…​