Virus. We are uncertain which one, but typhus, smallpox, measles are strong possibilities from historical descriptions, with other more exotic ones a possibility.

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The situation was exacerbated by Athenian poplation taking refuge from their farms within the city when the Peloponnesian army occupied Attica and invested the city. The crowded city and insanitary conditions provided ideal conditions for the spread of the plague.

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