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The disease that could kill within hours of sweating

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Surviving the sixteenth century was hard enough without rapidly fatal perspiration. Multiple terrifying outbreaks of a completely unidentified disease swept through England, characterized by an intensely foul sweat. Healthy individuals would wake up shivering, begin profusely sweating, and drop entirely dead within a matter of mere hours.

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