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Period: 541 to 542
Plague of Justinian
The bacterium responsible has been identified as your Sania pestis commonly known as bubonic plague a pathogen carried by rats and transferred to humans through fleas after the plague can run its course
25 to 50 million people had died, which was about quarter of the Earth's population then -
Period: 1347 to 1351
Black Death
Ships returned to the shores of Sicily filled with sailors stricken by a mysterious illness that formed dark swellings or buboes and the armpits and groin, 200 million lives across Eurasia -
Spanish Flu
Unlike most diseases spanish flu impacted young adults the hardest half of those that died were between the ages of 20 and 40 and 99% were under the age of 65 -
COVID-19
It is highly unlikely that kovat 19 will come anywhere close to Black Death or Spanish flu but this does not mean it should be taken slightly as a species, we must evolve learn and adapt if we want to survive.