Black Death
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Researchers say that understanding how plague became established after the Black Death, remained present for centuries, and eventually disappeared from Europe could help scientists better understand the long term behavior of infectious diseases.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Black Death is best known for the catastrophic wave of plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions of people.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Plagues have existed throughout history, said Heeney, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages ages to the 1918-20 influenza pandemic which killed an estimated 25-50 million globally.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Welcome to the challenges of writing the history of the Black Death, the great pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the late medieval world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
To borrow a trope from the historian Alfred Crosby, if Genghis Khan had arrived with the Black Death, this book would not be written in a European language.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
