Brian Michael Jenkins is a senior advisor to the president of the RAND Corporation. He is a frequent commentator on matters of global security and safety for major media outlets, including NBC, PBS, NPR, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
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From a plague in Athens during the Peloponnesian War in 430 BCE, to another in 540 that wiped out half the population of the Roman empire, down through the Black Death in the Middle Ages and on through the 1918 flu epidemic (which killed between 50 and 10... SEE MORE