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One of the most devastating pandemics known to humanity is known as the Black Death. It took place in the continent European mid-fourteenth century and its force was such that it took with it an estimate of 100 million people who died in prison not only from the disease if not also the lack of an appropriate health system. The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that spread with incredible volocity across much of the continent.

It is believed that the Black Death had its origins in Asia from where it was transported to Europe by rats and small vermin. In this sense, it is also estimated that it would not be until reaching Europe that it would acquire its most virulent facet. The phenomenon of the Black Death occurred just at a time in which Europe was progressively breaking out of the feudal confinement in which it had remained for centuries and in which the Commerce slowly began to gain dominance as economic activity. This undoubtedly influenced to facilitate the transfer of the virus that would be spread from people to people almost instantly.

The journey made by this bubonic plague had its beginning in the area of ​​present-day Turkey, where it arrived in the year 1347. By the middle of the following year, the plague had already spread throughout southern Europe, part of the continent that was in contact with the Mediterranean Sea and that greater influxes from the Middle East received. A year later, the most remote areas of Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and even the British Isles were already seriously affected by this plague. Only the region of present-day Poland and southeastern Germany would be lightly affected by this plague, which also reached the Balkan and northern countries.

One of the main problems posed by the Black Death, and hence its difficult combat, was the speed with which the virus was passed from person to person, as well as the discharge mortality that it generated in the individuals affected by it. It is believed that almost 50% of the population Europe died from this pandemic, and this obviously meant not only a human catastrophe but also great economic losses that took a long time to be reversed.