The 14th Century Black Plague in the Cinema
Abstract This paper focuses on the pandemic called Black Death (or Black Plague) occurring in the middle of the 14th century in the world till then known, outlines causes, spread and effects, mentions the role of physicians during it, addresses its consequences, and conducts a tour that includes twelve films and a recent miniseries where that plague is treated as axis or background. Given its controversial etiology, this communication, according to recent reports, agrees with the determinant role of Yersinia pestis in the abovementioned pandemic leaving, simultaneously and in this regard, an open mind towards the future due to the provisional and dynamic nature of science, about which the current pandemic is notorious evidence.
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2. Carabias Martin F. La amenaza de las plagas: Pánico en las calles (1950). [Internet]. Rev Med Cine. 2006 2 (3): 89-95.
3. Wade L. Did Black Death strike sub-Saharan Africa? Science. 2019. 363(6431):1022-22.
4. Chen W, Vermaak I, Viljoen A. Camphor--a fumigant during the Black Death and a coveted fragrant wood in ancient Egypt and Babylon--a review. Molecules 2013. 18(5): 5434-54.
5. Bubonic Plague (Yersinia pestis) Famous Deaths. Alchemipedia.
6. Famous people who died of bubonic plague. Ranker.
7. De Witte SN. Mortality risk and survival in the aftermath of the Medieval Black Death. PLoS ONE. 2014. 9(5): e96513.
8. Spirou MA, Tukhbatova RI, Feldman M, Drath J, Kacki S, Beltrán de Heredia J et al. Historical Y. pestis genomes reveal the european black death as the source of ancient and modern plague pandemics. Cell Host Microbe 2016; 19(6):874-81.
9. Internet Movie Database. Movies About Black Death ''Bubonic Plague''
10. Pappas G, Seitaridis S, Akritidis N, Tsianos E. Infectious Diseases in Cinema: Virus Hunters and Killer Microbes. Clin Infect Dis 2003. 37(7): 939-42.
11. Haensch S, Bianucci R, Signoli M, Rajerison M, Schultz M, Kacki S et al: Distinct clones of Yersinia pestis caused the Black Death PLOS Pathogens 2010. 6(10).
12. Bos K, Schuenemann VJ, Golding GB, Burbano HA, Waglechner N, Coombes BK et al. A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death. Nature. 2011. 478(7370): 506-10.
13. Demeure CE, Dussurget O, Mas Fiol G, Le Guern AS, Savin C, Pizarro-Cerdá J. al. Yersinia pestis and plague: an updated view on evolution, virulence determinants, immune subversion, vaccination, and diagnostics. Genes Immun. 2019. 20,357–70.
D’ottavio Callegari, M. E., D’ottavo Callegari, G. E., & D’ottavio Cattani, A. E. (2021). The 14th Century Black Plague in the Cinema. Journal of Medicine and Movies, 16(e), 351–361. https://doi.org/10.14201/rmc202016e351361
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