Ebola/Athens Revisited
1998
Ebola and the Plague of Athens
publication
Author Information
Author(s): P.E. Olson, A.S. Benenson, E.N. Genovese
Primary Institution: U.S. Navy Balboa Hospital, San Diego, California, USA; San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
Hypothesis
Could the plague of Athens have been caused by Ebola virus?
Conclusion
The authors acknowledge that their hypothesis about the plague of Athens being caused by Ebola virus had been previously suggested by another researcher.
Supporting Evidence
- Gayle D. Scarrow had previously suggested the possibility of Ebola causing the Athenian plague.
- The authors did not find Scarrow's work during their literature search.
Takeaway
The authors thought they were the first to suggest that Ebola might have caused the plague of Athens, but they found out someone else had the same idea before them.
Limitations
The authors did not find the previous work on the topic during their literature search.
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