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      • The Black Death was thought to be a combination of two plagues: bubonic and pneumonic. Bubonic plague does not spread directly from person to person but from rodent to person or person to person by infected fleas. Pneumonic plague is highly contagious and passes from person to person through droplets from coughs or sneezes.
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  2. Oct 23, 2024 · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

  3. The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the...

  4. Mar 10, 2011 · Discover facts about the Black Death and its symptoms. How and why did the plague spread in the middle ages?

  5. Sep 17, 2010 · The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. Explore the facts of the plague, the symptoms it caused and how millions died...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Black_DeathBlack Death - Wikipedia

    The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.

  7. Apr 25, 2019 · Plague pandemics hit the world in three waves from the 1300s to the 1900s and killed millions of people. The first wave, called the Black Death in Europe, was from 1347 to 1351. The second wave in the 1500s saw the emergence of a new virulent strain of the disease.

  8. Apr 5, 2023 · The Black Death was a plague pandemic that devastated medieval Europe from 1347 to 1352. The Black Death killed an estimated 25-30 million people. The disease originated in central Asia and was taken to the Crimea by Mongol warriors and traders.

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