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Global pandemics sadly not new in Scotland

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Residents across Perth and Kinross are now gripped by the coronavirus epidemic, with schools shut and people ordered to stay at home except in a few instances.But global pandemics are not a new thing in the region - during the early 1400s numerous plagues and diseases hit Scotland hard.Kind Henry IV of England was avoiding London as much as he possibly could, with some historians estimating as many as 30,000 people in the city died.Although those looking into this epidemic are not too sure exactly what disease it was - it is unlikely to have been bubonic plague because it started in the autumn and carried through the winter - it may have been cholera, typhoid fever or even a form of malignant dysentery.Most historians agree the epidemic was

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