> earlier the Bronze Age plague devastated most of Near East (& probably India), & most of us have no clue about it. It was probably the most destructive plague that we know of until the Black Death of Middle Ages. I also touched on how medicine in Bronze Age Middle East was >
> not all magic & religion, but they were already aware of the danger of contagion & the need to keep the sick isolated from the healthy. A letter from a vizier even mentions how no one should enter a land struck with plague nor should anyone enter it (similar to the hadeeth). >
> And of course, the first instance of a biological warfare, when the Hittites sent a girl and a bunch of rams & donkeys armed with plague and a taweez to their enemies.
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