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Article: Sidelights. (brief chronology of the Black Death, a form of bubonic plague that killed about 75 million people between 1347 and 1351)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- January 29, 1996
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* One of the worst plagues in history was the Black Death. Between 1347 and 1351, this form of bubonic plague killed an estimated 75 million people--one-third of Europe's entire population, devastating regions from Italy to Norway.
* The plague was brought from the Middle East by sailors in ships, Once ashore, it spread rapidly. According to one eyewitness, victims died a horrible death: Those infected felt a pain throughout their whole bodies . . . then developed in their thighs and upper arms a boil . . . This infected the whole body (drawing above) so far that the patient ...