Mary Brodd’s Reviews > The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time > Status Update

1. I did not know that there were places in the world, referred to as "foci," where plague germs naturally exist.

2. this author likes to dwell at length on the physical symptoms experienced by plague sufferers - let's just say that if I were typesetting this book, I'd already have created a shortcut for the phrase "bloody anal discharge."