Here's hoping this is a one-off incident.
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Originally Posted by Chock
That's certainly true just up the road from me in the Derbyshire village of Eyam, a village I have often flown over in my glider. When the plague was around Europe, the people of this village voluntarily quarantined themselves upon discovering the infection had made it to their locality, in an act of self-sacrifice to prevent it spreading to surrounding towns. Many people died, but relatives of the survivors have been tested in recent years and found to be resilient to the disease.
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Similar story near me, where they buried an entire village. The original church is about a mile and a half outside the current village.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holcombe,_Somerset