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The Middle Ages Black Death
The Black Death is estimated to have killed about 50 percent of Europe′s total population. In total, the plague may have reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the fourteenth century. It took 200 years for the world population to recover to its previous level. The plague recurred as outbreaks in Europe until the nineteenth century.
The Black Death
The Black Death, also known as The Plague was a global epidemic of bubonic plague which struck Europe and Asia from 1347 to 1353 and was the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history possibly causing upward of 200 million deaths. The Plague arrived in Europe in October 1347 when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina and was spread by flees carrying the bacterium Yersinia pesits.
The people of Messina who were on the docks when those ships arrived were met with a horrifying surprise as they found that most of sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those still alive were gravely ill and covered in black boils that oozed blood and pus.
Sicilian authorities hastily ordered the fleet of death ships out of the harbor, but it was too late because in the course of the next five years, the Black Death would kill about one-third of the population of Europe.
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