For sixty-six years, a mysterious disease terrorized Tudor England — killing healthy men within hours while sparing the poor and the weak. The sweating sickness struck five times between 1485 and 1551, cutting through royal courts, universities, and monasteries with no warning and no cure. It infected Anne Boleyn and drove Henry VIII into hiding. In 1529 it leapt to the continent, sweeping through Hamburg, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe before burning out almost as fast as it began. Then, after its fifth and final outbreak, it vanished completely — never to return to England or anywhere else in the world. In this episode of The Dark Chronicles, we trace the sweating sickness from its sudden appearance after the Battle of Bosworth to modern researchers' best guess at what it actually was: a five-hundred-year-old medical cold case that still isn't fully solved. This is the story of England's forgotten killer epidemic, and the unanswered question it left behind.

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2. The English Sweat in Lübeck and North Germany, 1529 — Medical History (PMC)
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3. The Sweating Sickness in Tudor England — Hektoen International
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4. Sweating Sickness: The Forgotten Epidemic — Amusing Planet
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