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(photo from 1975 plague victim) A map of the Byzantine Empire in 550 (a decade after the Plague of Justinian) with Justinian's conquests shown in green The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely affecting the Sasanian Empire and ...
Dubbed the Justinian Pandemic or the Plague of Justinian, the disease spread throughout Roman Egypt before infecting the rest of the world over the ensuing 200 years.
The first plague pandemic was the first historically recorded Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Also called the early medieval pandemic, it began with the Plague of Justinian in 541 and continued until 750 or 767. At least fifteen to eighteen major waves of plague following the ...
Plague of Justinian (beginning of first plague pandemic) 541–549 Europe and West Asia: Bubonic plague: 15–100 million [5] [41] [42] 580 Dysentery Epidemic in Gaul: 580 Gaul: Dysentery or possibly smallpox 450,000 (10% of the Gaul population) [43] Roman Plague of 590 (part of first plague pandemic) 590 Rome, Byzantine Empire: Bubonic plague ...
The Plague of Justinian in AD 541–542 is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague. This disease is thought to have originated in China. [ 19 ] It then spread to Africa from where the huge city of Constantinople imported massive amounts of grain, mostly from Egypt, to feed its citizens.
The first recorded pandemic, otherwise known as the Justinian Plague, began in the sixth century and killed more than 25 million people across the Mediterranean basin over the next 200 years ...
The overall risk of death for all types of plague in the U.S., according to Mayo Clinic, is around 11%. The most important factor for survival is that medical attention begins promptly.
A book written by David Keys speculates that the climate changes contributed to various developments, such as the emergence of the Plague of Justinian (541–549), the decline of the Avars, the migration of Mongol tribes towards the west, the end of the Sasanian Empire, the collapse of the Gupta Empire, the rise of Islam, the expansion of ...