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*Struck the Byzantine Empire in the year 541 ad. The bacterium responsible has been identified as your Sania pestis, commonly known as bubonic plague a pathogen carried by rats and transferred to humans through fleas.
* Left 25-50 million people dead -
*Ships returned to the coasts of Sicily full of sailors affected by a mysterious disease that formed dark swellings or buboes and the armpits and groin.
*Sailors were forbidden to enter their cities for 40 days in Italy (it was called Forty G or Denis which means 40 days and explains where we get the word quarantine in English)
*Left about 200 million deaths in Eurasia -
*These endemics would pave the way for Europeans to colonize the Americas, the Native Americans lacked any immunity to these foreign pathogens and once exposed
*More than 20 million or 90% of the pre-Columbian population would be eliminated in the end it would not be steel or weapons that would conquer the new word, but infectious germs and flu viruses.
*Millions of people were killed over several centuries -
*It infected 500 million people worldwide.
*It hit young adults the hardest half of those who died were between the ages of 20 and 40 and 99% were under 65.
*In the late 1920s the Spanish flu claimed the lives of 50 to 100 million people. -
*We must be prepared, we must not wait until the last second to act together, take care of our hygiene
* Unlikely to approach the Spanish flu
