As the Bubonic Plague rolled across China, the Middle East, Russia, and Europe from the 14th to 17th centuries, it claimed an estimated 150 million lives, along with the title of deadliest epidemic in human history. Originating in China in the 1300s, it hitched a ride on the Silk Road with rodents and spread West, […]
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