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1. Eyam Web Site

   Primary school children take you on a virtual tour of the "plague village" in the Peak District, England.

   http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sirrobhitch.suffolk/Eyam/Default.htm

   
   

2. Great Plague and the Great Fire

   Read about bubonic plague in London in 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Find out how the plague was carried by rats and soldiers.

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/73.shtml

   
   

3. Great Plague, The

   Read about the Great Plague of London and how the disease was carried by fleas that lived on black rats.

   http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/heathsid/Subjects/History/plague.htm

   
   

4. Secrets of the Dead: Mystery of the Black Death

   Read along as PBS investigates a genetic mutation that might have helped people be immune the Plague and which might be helping their descendants be immune to AIDS.

   http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/

   
   

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