The Black Death was a devastating pandemic that peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is believed to have been caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread from Central Asia through fleas living on black rats. It killed an estimated 30-60% of Europe's population, reducing the world population by around 100 million. The plague had profound social and economic impacts on Europe and its recovery took over 150 years. It continued affecting Europe in intermittent outbreaks into the 19th century.
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The Black Death was a devastating pandemic that peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is believed to have been caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread from Central Asia through fleas living on black rats. It killed an estimated 30-60% of Europe's population, reducing the world population by around 100 million. The plague had profound social and economic impacts on Europe and its recovery took over 150 years. It continued affecting Europe in intermittent outbreaks into the 19th century.
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The Black Death!
The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in
human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is widely thought to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, but this view has recently been challenged. Usually thought to have started in Central Asia, it had reached the Crimea by 1346 and from there, probably carried by fleas residing on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships, it spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population, reducing the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. This has been seen as creating a series of religious, social and economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of European history. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover. The plague returned at various times, resulting in a larger number of deaths, until it left Europe in
the 19th century.
The Black Death is categorized into three specific types of plague bubonic pneumonic and septicemic plague. Bubonic infection in the lymph nodes, or buboes Pneumonic the infection in the lungs Septicemic the infection in the blood and the of the three most deadly Scientists and historians at the beginning of the 20th century assumed that the Black Death was an outbreak of the same diseases, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas which primarily made use of highly mobile small animal populations like that of the black rat (Rattus rattus).
