Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228202 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP20/22
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD Centre for Economic Research, Dublin
Abstract: 
The global COVID-19 pandemic recalls the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15 and earlier much more lethal plague epidemics. All share several characteristics, even though the second and third plague epidemics dwarfed the both the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak and COVID-19 in terms of mortality. This essay reviews the mortality due to Ebola and plague and their lethality; the spatial and socioeconomic dimensions of plague mortality; the role of public action in containing the two diseases; and their economic impact.
Subjects: 
plague
mortality
health
economic history
JEL: 
I10
N00
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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