BLACK DEATH Name given to the plague that ravaged Eurasia between 1347 and 1353, where a third of the European population died. It was attributed divine cause and the Church said it was provoked by the Jews, which initiated persecution with pogroms and murders that lasted until the SXX. In the 19th century alone it was discovered to be caused by bacillus zoonosis that fleas and rare ones transmitted to humans.
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