Second plague pandemic
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The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed up to half of the population of Eurasia in the
Great Plague of London in 1665
Plague Column in Vienna was erected after the Great Plague epidemic in 1679
The Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 killed 100,000 people in the city and the surrounding provinces.
Contemporary engraving of Naples during the Naples Plague in 1656
Third plague pandemic
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The third plague pandemic was a major plague pandemic that began in Yunnan, China, in 1855. Its name refers to its status as the third of at least three known major pandemics caused by the spread of t
Second plague pandemic
…the disease recurred in some places until the late 18th century or the early 19th century. After this, a new strain of the bacterium gave rise to the third plague pandemic, which started in Asia around the mid-19th century. By the early 19th century, the threat of plague had diminished, though it was quickly replaced by…
Plague patient being injected by a doctor in 1897, British Raj India