Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.
Figures for the death toll vary widely by area and from source to source, and estimates are frequently revised as historical research brings new discoveries to light. Most scholars estimate that the Black Death killed up to 75 million people [5] in the 14th century, at a time when the entire world population was still less than 500 million.
Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.
Survivors were aware that the Black Death of 1347–51 was not a unique event and that life was now "far more frightening and precarious than before". [31] The Italian peninsula was struck with an outbreak of plague in 68% of the years between 1348 and 1600. [31] There were 22 outbreaks of plague in Venice between 1361 and 1528. [43]
The Black Death in England had survived the winter of 1348–49, but during the following winter it subsided, and by December 1349 conditions were returning to relative normality. [39] It had taken the disease around 500 days to traverse the entire country. [40]
In 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, we lost nearly 1,000 people a day in my home state of New York, and Black patients were twice as likely to die once admitted than their white ...
Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, are the last known survivors of one of the single worst acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history. As many as 300 Black people ...
The Black Death was present in Italy between 1347–1348. [1] Sicily and the Italian Peninsula was the first area in then Catholic Western Europe to be reached by the bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which reached the region by an Italian ship from the Crimea which landed in Messina in Sicily in October 1347. [1]