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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.
- Effects and Significance
Black Death - Plague, Mortality, Europe: It is estimated...
- Cause and Outbreak
Black Death - Bubonic Plague, Europe, 1347: The plague...
- Yersinia Pestis
Outbreaks of Y. pestis gave rise to some of the...
- Key Facts
Black Death The painting Blessed Bernard Tolomei Interceding...
- Effects and Significance
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]
Key points. In 1348 - 49, the Black Death swept across Europe, killing up to half of the population. There were two main types of plague: bubonic and pneumonic. Treatments and cures were based...
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...
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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- The first major wave of the Black Death lasted from 1347 to 1352.
- The Black Death never really ended, it was just that successive waves became less devastating from the 15th century thanks to better sanitation and...
- Some people did survive the Black Death since it killed between 30 and 75% of those infected and not 100%. There were also areas where the plague d...
- During the Black Death, the bubonic plague spread from the Crimea to Europe via rats or human parasites via Genoese ships. Between 30% and 50% of t...
Mar 10, 2011 · The Black Death was 'a squalid disease that killed within a week' and a national trauma that utterly transformed Britain. Dr Mike Ibeji follows its deadly path. The...
Black Death The painting Blessed Bernard Tolomei Interceding for the Cessation of the Plague in Siena by the Italian artist Giuseppe Maria Crespi dates from about 1735. Bernard left his monastery to attend to victims of the Black Death in his birthplace of Siena. He died of plague in 1348. Bernard was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
