There was a nasty disease called the sweat or English sweat. Was around for several years and then disappeared. Don’t know if anyone today knows what it was.
Anne Boleyn very nearly died of the Sweating Sickness, as it was known.
Nobody knows for sure. Some think it was a hantavirus.
“There was a nasty disease called the sweat or English sweat. Was around for several years and then disappeared. Don’t know if anyone today knows what it was.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness
Sweating sickness, also known as English sweating sickness or English sweat or (Latin) sudor anglicus, was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. The last outbreak occurred in 1551, after which the disease apparently vanished.