Year Of The Bubonic Plague. In madagascar cases of bubonic plague are reported nearly every year, during the epidemic season (between september and april). On what year did the bubonic plague break out in europe?
Bubonic plague is the prototypic plague illness. The ‘black death’ of the 14th century killed a quarter of europe’s population. The plague kept reappearing, but the epidemics did not spread as widely:
The plague, named the black death by later historians, had a devastating effect on the european population in the fourteenth century. One of the worst plagues in history arrived at europe's shores in 1347. The plague arrived in europe in october 1347, when 12 ships from the black sea.
The first official case was reported on 23 september 1896 in what was then bombay. In madagascar cases of bubonic plague are reported nearly every year, during the epidemic season (between september and april). But since the 1990s, most human cases have occurred in africa.
In 1666 the great fire of london destroyed much of the centre of london, but also helped to kill off some of the black rats and fleas that carried the plague bacillus. When the plague broke out in bombay in colonial india in 1893, in the nowroji hill district, a goan doctor called acacio viegas was the first to identify the disease as bubonic plague. The first case of bubonic plague in australia was reported in january 1900.
1346 some 100 million people inhabited europe, northern africa and the near east. Plague pandemics hit the world in three waves from the 1300s to the 1900s and killed millions of people. In the spring and summer of 1665 an outbreak of bubonic plague spread from parish to parish until thousands had died and the huge pits dug to receive the bodies were full.
The second wave in the 1500s saw the emergence of a new virulent strain of the disease. Five years later, some 25 to 50 million people were dead. The first recorded case of the plague was in china in 224 b.c.e.
