Talk - Beyond the Black Death: Major Disease Outbreaks in History by D.G. Fitzgerald

We’ve all had our own experience with a plague not too long ago and of course, most people have heard of the Black Death. But what of the terror of Typhoid fever? The calamity of Cholera? The sinister scare of Spanish Flu?

Moving into a slightly (but not vastly) different wheelhouse, DG Fitzgerald takes a deep dive into these three deadly diseases. He’ll be looking at what exactly they were, what people suffered as a result and the biggest impacts they’ve had in history. There may be some familiar aspects to be found from our own recent past as well…