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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.
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Black Death
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Date: 1347 - 1351Location:
EuropeContext:
pandemic
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The Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of
plague, caused by infection with the
bacterium Yersinia pestis. Modern genetic analyses indicate that the strain of
Y. pestis introduced during the Black Death is ancestral to all
extant circulating
Y. pestis strains known to cause disease in humans. Hence, the origin of modern plague
epidemics lies in the
medieval period. Other scientific evidence has indicated that the Black Death may have been viral in origin.
Yersinia pestis
A microscopic image shows
Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague.
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Cause and outbreak
Having originated in
China and Inner Asia, the Black Death decimated the army of the
Kipchak khan Janibeg while he was besieging the
Genoese trading port of Kaffa (now
Feodosiya) in
Crimea (1347). With his forces disintegrating, Janibeg catapulted plague-infested corpses into the town in an effort to infect his enemies. From Kaffa, Genoese ships carried the
epidemic westward to Mediterranean ports, whence it spread inland, affecting
Sicily (1347);
North Africa, mainland
Italy,
Spain, and
France (1348); and
Austria,
Hungary,
Switzerland,
Germany, and the
Low Countries (1349). A ship from
Calais carried the
plague to
Melcombe Regis,
Dorset, in
August 1348. It reached Bristol almost immediately and spread rapidly throughout the southwestern counties of
England.
London suffered most violently between February and May 1349,
East Anglia and
Yorkshire during that summer. The Black Death reached the extreme north of England,
Scotland,
Scandinavia, and the
Baltic countries in 1350.