How many people died in the medieval times from illness?

Answer 1

1st AnswerI'm supposing you're thinking about the Black or Bubonic Plague. It started around 1331. See the Related Question. 2nd AnswerThere were two great outbreaks of bubonic plague. One was the Plague of Justinian, which struck in 541, and came back repeatedly for the next 150 years or so. The other was the Black Death, which got to Europe in 1347 or 1348, having started earlier in Asia, and similarly kept coming back. In each case, about half the population was killed.

There were a great number of other important epidemics, and the one particularly associated with the Middle Ages was leprosy, which became epidemic in the High Middle Ages. In the Late Middle Ages, 1300 to 1450, there were places where a third of the people were lepers, one example is Iceland.

There were numerous other epidemics, and some diseases we do not see today, such as small pox, were endemic for the entire time.

3RD Answer:

Yes they did get disease. Mostly in the summer as more insects were about so the summer was the most common time. As people were very superstitious and the church effectively controlled all learning so there were no advancements in medicine and the cures that they had would probably kill you instead of make you better!

Answer 2

bubonic plague. the people of those times did not understand about the spread of disease. the carriers were rats, the infectors were the fleas they carried on them. as many as two thirds of the people of Europe perished. devastating horrible death. i choose not to describe it.

Answer 3

Disease in the middle age was cause for a couple of reasons. first off the sanitation was very poor so diseases could spread very fast. also most of the people who got sick were the poor. the poor were most vulnerable because they had very little food and water to help stengthen their immune systems. lastly the poor were usually in very close quarters. this ment that when one person got sick many people were likely to become sick as well.

Answer 4

The disease level increased because when people had cattle and they were use to the sickness of animals. The cattle owners had their own unknown vaccines, animals, and when they went to invade places without domesticated animals the people uder attack got the diseases from the invaders. So on and so forth.

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Answer 5

To discuss this we have to include the "black death". Starting in China and spreading to Central Aisa, India, Persia and the Middle East the total reported dead by Pope Clement VI at Avignon was reported as 23,840,000. In January 1348 it arrived in France via Marseilles and North Africa vis Tunis. Ships spread it through out Europe. In any area the plague accomplished its kill within 4 to 6 months, faded ( except in larger cities) in the winter months and then reappeared in spring to kill for another 6 months. A third of Europe is reported to have died and that means about 20 million deaths, but we do not know exactly how many. In Avignon, alone, it is reported that 400 died daily, 7,000 houses were shut by death, and a single graveyard got 11,000 corpses in 6 weeks. Historians put the death total for Avignon at 62,000 to 120,000. In Paris the plague lasted through 1349 and the reported Death Rate was 800 a day, in Pisa 500, Vienna at 500-600 a day. The total dead in Paris totaled 50,000 or half of the population. Florence lost three to four fifths of it's population. Venice two thirds and Hamburg about the same. None of the totals includes death by any other causes so when you add those into the totals the death rate was very high. Most people did not live past 40 years old in this time.