The Nation of Death
China and disease. Asia - the curse on humanity. In all cases, red font emphasis added. The Antoine Plague. The Antonine Plague of 165 to 180 AD, also known as the Plague of Galen (after Galen, a Greek physician who lived in the Roman Empire and described it), was an ancient pandemic brought to the Roman Empire by troops who were returning from campaigns in the Near East. Ancient sources agree that the epidemic appeared first during the Roman siege of Seleucia…Rafe de Crespigny speculates that the plague may have also broken out in Eastern Han China before 166…Raoul McLaughlin wrote that the Roman subjects visiting the Han Chinese court in 166 could have ushered in a new era of Roman Far East trade, but it was a "harbinger of something much more ominous" instead. McLaughlin surmised that the origins of the plague lay in Central Asia… From Asia, always from Asia. The epidemic most likely emerged in China shortly before 166 CE spreading westward along the Silk Road and by tr...