How the Black Death or the Bubonic Plague spread throughout Europe? The deadly disease has been with man and part of world and medieval history for a very long time. It has claimed nearly 200 MILLION lives. The disease initially followed Caravan routes and then, with aid of European Shipping and the accompanying rats, by 1346 arrived in […]
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How the Black Death or the Bubonic Plague spread throughout Europe?
The deadly disease has been with man and part of world and medieval history for a very long time.
It has claimed nearly 200 MILLION lives.
The disease initially followed Caravan routes and then, with aid of European Shipping and the accompanying rats, by 1346 arrived in the Crimea.
The spread of the disease had started throughout the known world.
Within 12 months the spread of the Black Death (Bubonic Plague) had devastated Constantinople.
The illness moved to Alexandria in the Autumn of 1347 and within 6 months of the initial outbreak 1000 people were dying every day in that city alone.
Two months later the toll in Cairo was exceeding 7500 people who were dying every day.
Obviously, with such high mortality rates it was not uncommon for a whole town, or city, to become depopulated.
Such rates explain how the population of the World fell to such low levels.
The relatively few survivors, quite naturally attempted to flee whenever the deadly virus spread to their area.
But the survivors took the Black Death / Bubonic Plague with them and thus the disease spread even further by both land and sea.
Even small islands , like Sicily, were also contaminated by the spread of the disease.
By the end of 1346 the spread of the illness had reached mainland Europe.
The Eastern part of Europe was not hit until the following year and Russia did not succumb to the deadly spread until 1351.
For the next 60 years the virus devastated all of Europe.
The spread of the illness followed every one of the many new Trade Routes which had been opened due to outbreaks of the disease polluting the existing routes.
These Trade Routes ensured the spread of the Black Death / Bubonic Plague throughout the world.
There was no hiding place.
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