{"id":2504,"date":"2020-07-27T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/racism-regret-and-rat-hunters-what-history-tells-us-about-previous-pandemics\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:03:51","slug":"historic-plague-parallels-with-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/historic-plague-parallels-with-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism, regret and rat hunters: what history tells us about previous pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n\n \n Before collecting their bounty, rat catchers in San Francisco around 1908 pose with the rodents they\u2019ve killed as part of a program aimed at stemming the spread of bubonic plague. The man in the center dips a rat trap into a bucket of antiseptic. (Photo: Courtesy of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
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