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A Mongolian couple recently died of the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot kidney, setting off a quarantine that trapped tourists in the country's western Bayan Olgii province for almost a ...
A couple died in May 2019, in Mongolia, while hunting marmots. [38] Another two people in the province of Inner Mongolia, China, were treated in November 2019 for the disease. [39] Spread of bubonic plague through time in Europe (2nd pandemic) In July 2020, in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia of China, a human case of bubonic plague was reported.
A plague epidemic known as the Great Northern War plague outbreak, that followed the Great Northern War (1700–1721, Sweden v. Russia and allies) wiped out almost 1/3 of the population in the region. [citation needed] An estimated one-third of East Prussia's population died in the plague of 1709–1711. [38]
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3]
The plague also spread into areas of Western Europe and Africa that the Mongols never reached. The Mongols practiced biological warfare by catapulting diseased cadavers into the cities they besieged. It is believed that fleas remaining on the bodies of the cadavers may have acted as vectors to spread the Black Death. [18] [19] [20] [21]
The plague spread westward across Europe eventually killing 30 to 60 percent of the population. #33 Sometime during the second anglo war (basically Spain and britain vs the dutch)
A 2024 study of Neolithic graves in Denmark and western Sweden concluded that plague was sufficiently widespread to be the cause of the decline, and that there were three outbreaks in Northern Europe between 5,200 years ago and 4,900 years ago, with the final outbreak caused by a strain of Yersinia pestis with reshuffled genes.