Beating Back Black Death

In 1900, bubonic plague, the Black Death, arrived in Sydney and within a year, it had found its way to Melbourne, Fremantle, Adelaide and Far North Queensland. So how come our brush with this most infamous and deadly disease doesn't get more pages in the history books? Juliana takes a deep dive into Australia's 30-year plague epidemic to understand how a disease with a track record for killing millions didn't even get close in this country, and examines how much of a role the lauded pre-preparation really played in Australia's good fortune.Sources for this episode can be found here: https://skepticalhistory.com/172-2/