Black Death (Pandemic) AKA Pestilence, Great Mortality
Black Death
1338 AD - 1349 AD
AKA Pestilence, Great Mortality
the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, resulting in the deaths of up to 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
It is likely that over four years, 45–50% of the European population died of plague
Plague, the disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was the cause; Y. pestis infection most commonly results in bubonic plague, but can cause septicaemic or pneumonic plagues.
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