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541 BCE
Plague of Justinian
Justinian's plague was a pandemic that affected the Byzantine Empire and other parts of Europ. It is estimated that the world population lost between 13 and 26% of population in the sixth century.
Signs and symptoms include the following:
-Fever and chills.
-Darkening and death of tissue in the extremities.
-Buboes, mainly in the groin, armpit, or neck -
Period: 541 BCE to 549 BCE
Plague of Justinian
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1347
Black Death
The black death was the most devastating bubonic plague pandemic in history, affecting Eurasia in the fourteenth century. It is difficult to know the number of deceased, but it is estimated between 80 to 200 million. It would have caused the death of between 30% and 60% of the population of Europe.
Plague was transmitted between animals and humans and caused:
-High fever
-Blue or black spots on the skin
-Appearance of black buboes -
Period: 1347 to 1351
Black death
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1442
Diseases of the conquest
The diseases that arrived along with the Spaniards during the time of the conquest were: malaria, smallpox, exanthematic typhus, measles, tuberculosis, and bubonic plague. -
Spanish Flu
Between 1918 and 1919, it spread rapidly throughout the world, infecting a third of the world's population and claiming the lives of 50 million people, five times more deaths than in the First World War.
High fever, earache, body fatigue, diarrhea and occasional vomiting were the typical symptoms of this disease. -
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Spanish Flu