"One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, the Black Death ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1353, and killed an estimated 25 to 50 million people. It has long been accepted that the bubonic plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which originated from wild rodent populations in central Asia and reached Europe via the Black Sea region."
"However, historians have not previously understood why the Black Death began precisely when it did, where it started, why it was so deadly, and how it spread so quickly. A new study from academics at the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) has shed light on the circumstances which led to the bubonic plague coming to Europe."
Volcanic eruptions initiated a sequence of climatic and ecological disruptions that contributed to the Black Death's emergence in Europe. The Black Death struck Europe from 1347 to 1353, killing an estimated 25 to 50 million people. The bubonic plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which originated in wild rodent populations in central Asia and reached Europe via the Black Sea. Historians previously lacked clear explanations for the timing, origin, lethality, and rapid spread. A study by academics at the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe combined climate data and documentary evidence to reconstruct circumstances, including why Italians imported grain across the Black Sea.
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