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+ ''Yersinia Derbynis'', more commonly known as Eyam's Cleft, is a disease that the [[PC]] will receive in the beginning of the game. It was named after the town of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyam](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyam) Eyam], a village which isolated itself off from the rest of the world to avoid spreading the plague.
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+ The scientific name of the disease indicates that it is closely related to the bacterium that caused the Black Death and other plague outbreaks, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis) Yersinia pestis]''.
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+ ==Trivia==
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+ The town of Eyam was a source of inspiration for [[Robert Sherman]], author of The Black Crown Project. On [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190525063933/http://bonfiredog.co.uk/bonfog/2013/08/14/eyam/](https://web.archive.org/web/20190525063933/http://bonfiredog.co.uk/bonfog/2013/08/14/eyam/) his blog] he writes:
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+ > My boundary may be a little more grand than Eyam’s, but Eyam’s was here first, and the Coolstone was the foundation that sited every other angle in the Institute. The Boundary Stone is more than a marker, it is an anchor, stopping the Institute from sliding into the ocean, and as we walked along the tracks past houses full of electricity and plastic rinse aids and fruits from very far away, I thought about the Coolstone as an anchor for the village of Eyam.
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