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Medieval health disasters

  • Black DeathIn 1347, Genoese trading ships fled the siege of Kaffa in Crimea. The Golden Horde army of Jani Beg had catapulted infected corpses over the city walls to…
  • Plague of JustinianIn 541, grain ships arrived at the port of Pelusium near Suez in Egypt. These vessels carried infected rats and fleas that would soon carry Yersinia pestis…