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The Bubonic Plague

The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% – 60% of Europe's population,

It is widely thought to have been an outbreak of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis between 1348 and 1350.

Thought to have started in China, it travelled along the Silk Road and had reached the Crimea by 1346. From there, probably carried by Oriental rat fleas residing on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships, it spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe.

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