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Plague of Athens

The Ancients

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The First Signs of the Plague on a Person?

Thucydides says the first signs of plague are a fever, redness and inflammation of the eyes. The disease then moves down into the stomach where your lungs or your coughing vomiting happens. He said that most people are dead by this point.

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