History 2812E Chapter 3: The Burdens of Disease - J.N. Hays - Chapter 3: The Great Plague Pandemic
13 Dec 2017
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The great plague pandemic: most serious epidemic outbreak in western history began in sicily october 1347 and by. 1353 most of europe was affected: the disease responsible was the plague in both its bubonic and pneumonic forms, killed between 30 and 60% of europe"s population and came to be known as the black. Plague: caused by the microorganism yersinia pestis parasitic in burrowing rodents, carried from rodent to rodent by fleas. It is possible that large mortality rates of this time were the result of multiple diseases acting in tandem. Venice, genoa), southern france, and coast of dalmatia by the year"s end: spring/summer 1348 - plague then spread across europe by land and sea, reached. France, over italy by land into germany: 1349 continued from the south and west into germany, the danube valley, northern. Inadequate food supply and unrestrained human fertility held the human population in a grip of scarcity.
