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Nov 15, 2021 · History’s Seven Deadliest Plagues. SARS-CoV-2 has officially claimed 5 million lives, but credible estimates place the pandemic’s true death toll closer to 17 million. Either count secures COVID-19’s position on our list of history’s deadliest plagues. 15 November 2021.
Dec 7, 2023 · Pandemics have killed millions of people throughout history. How many deaths were caused by different pandemics, and how have researchers estimated their death tolls?
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Seneca nation, North America Measles: Unknown 1592–1593 Malta plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1592–1593 Malta: Bubonic plague: 3,000 1592–1593 London plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1592–1593 London, England Bubonic plague: 19,900+ 1596–1602 Spain plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic)
EventYearsLocationDisease1350 BC plague of Megiddoc. 1350 BCMegiddo, land of CanaanAmarna letters EA 244, Biridiya, mayor of ...Hittite Plague /"Hand of Nergal"c. 1330 BCNear East, Hittite Empire, Alashiya, ...Unknown, possibly Tularemia. Mentioned in ...430–426 BCGreece, Libya, Egypt, EthiopiaUnknown, possibly typhus, typhoid fever ...412 BCGreece ( Northern Greece, Roman Republic ...Unknown, possibly influenza- Antonine Plague. Deaths: 5 million • Cause: Measles and smallpox. In "The Plague in Rome," painted in 1869, artist Jules Elie Delaunay creates an allegorical representation of the scourge breaking down doors.
- Plague of Justinian. Deaths: 30-50 million • Source: Rats and fleas. Josse Lieferinxe's "Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken," ca. 1497, depicts Saint Sebastian kneeling to pray before God on behalf of people suffering from or killed by the plague.
- Black Death. Deaths: 75-200 million • Source: Rats and fleas. The plague in Tournai, then part of France, as depicted in "The Annales of Gilles de Muisit" from the mid-14th century.
- New World smallpox. Deaths: 25-55 million • Cause: Variola virus. Explorers arrived to the New World bearing more than just turnips and grapes. They also brought smallpox, measles and other viruses for which New World inhabitants had no immunity.
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Three of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history were caused by a single bacterium, Yersinia pestis, a fatal infection otherwise known as the plague. The Plague of Justinian arrived in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 541 CE. It was carried over the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt, where plague-ridden fleas hitched a ride on...
The plague never really went away, and when it returned 800 years later, it killed with reckless abandon. The Black Death, which hit Europe in 1347, claimed an astonishing 25 million lives in just four years. Some historians estimate the disease led to even higher death tolls—up to 200 million. As for how to stop the disease, people still had no sc...
London never really caught a break after the Black Death. The plague resurfaced roughly every 10 years from 1348 to 1665—40 outbreaks in just over 300 years. And with each new plague epidemic, 20 percent of the men, women and children living in the British capital were killed. By the early 1500s, England imposed the first laws to separate and isola...
Smallpox was endemic to Europe, Asia and Arabia for centuries, a persistent menace that killed three out of ten people it infected and left the rest with pockmarked scars. But the death rate in the Old World paled in comparison to the devastation wrought on native populations in the New World when the smallpox virus arrived in the 15th century with...
In the early- to mid-19th century, choleratore through England, killing tens of thousands. The prevailing scientific theory of the day said that the disease was spread by foul air known as a “miasma.” But a British doctor named John Snow suspected that the mysterious disease, which killed its victims within days of the first symptoms, lurked in Lon...
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Oct 3, 2022 · Though daily world travel has undoutedly exacerbated the spread of the virus, plagues have long been a component of recorded human history. What follows are the deadliest plagues in American history.
Mar 14, 2020 · Death toll; Antonine Plague: 165-180: Believed to be either smallpox or measles: 5M: Japanese smallpox epidemic: 735-737: Variola major virus: 1M: Plague of Justinian: 541-542: Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas: 30-50M: Black Death: 1347-1351: Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas: 200M: New World Smallpox Outbreak: 1520 – onwards ...
