black plague
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Here’s What We’ve Learned From 4 Other Global Pandemics Throughout History
The course of human history has been shaped by infectious diseases, and the current crisis certainly won’t be the last time.
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The Same Microbe That Led To Black Death Also Caused A Huge Plague Centuries Before
Centuries before the Black Death decimated the population of Western Europe, an earlier plague epidemic took out over 50 million people (about 15 per cent of the population) in the Byzantine empire. A team of German scientists has confirmed that the two plagues were caused by the same bacterium, albeit genetically different strains.