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The Black Death was long thought by scholars to have been an especially devastating outbreak of the Bubonic Plague, caused by bacteria of the species Yersinia pestis. Recent DNA analysis shows that this is, in fact, correct.

As to why the outbreak was so deadly, it is not known. There have been a lot of suggestions, but proof is elusive. It may be that there were an unusually large number of rats and other rodents, and their fleas, all of which are carriers of the plague. That, of course begs the question of why there were so many.

There were a large number of later outbreaks of the bubonic plague, but it is similarly not known why they were nowhere near as devastating.

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