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Because sailors took it along routes into Europe where it eventually spread.
AnswerThe Black Death is believed to have been caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, and the disease is called bubonic plague. AnswerThe Black Plague was caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, which was formerly Pasteurella pestis. The disease vectors were rodents, especially rats, and fleas. The Black Death or Black Plague was a specific outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe during 1346 to 1351.
The Bubonic Plague (a.k.a The Black Plague) caused a dramatic decline in the population of Europe in the 1300s.
The oriental rat flea spread the black plague from Asia into Europe.
The first major outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe may have been the Plague of Justinian, in 541-542. It might also have been the Black Death of 1347-1351. We not know for sure, which, if either of these, was the first because we do not know for certain that they were bubonic plague, and we do not know that some earlier plagues were not.
in the 1300s 2nd answer: While the primary outbreak of the plague was over by 1352-1353 in Europe, localized outbreaks continued for hundreds of years. Some of these, like the London plague of 1665-1666, were massive. This particular outbreak in London killed an estimated 100,000 people. Large outbreaks occurred periodically in various parts of Europe until the late 18th century.
During the black plague in Europe during the 1300s an estimated 75 to 200 million people died. During peaks of the outbreak English theaters had to shut down since the close concentration of people would have worked to further spread the virus.
The Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague that arrived in Europe in 1347 and continued until about 1352. It moved across Europe during this time, and typically remained in a particular place for a few months.
In 1665 there wasn't the black death. The last large plague outbreak was in the 1330. There was an outbreak in China in 1855 caused by rats and fleas. ___ There was a major plague in 1665 that swept through England. London was especially hard hit. It was started the same way the earlier plague outbreaks began - fleas from rats.
An outbreak of bubonic plague that was pandemic throughout Europe and much of Asia in the 14th century.
The London theaters closed in 1593 because of an outbreak of plague.
Yersinia pestis.. the same bacterium that caused it throughout the rest of Europe.