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The Black Death: the Plague that Sowed Terror and Death in Medieval Europe - Part 2

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La Peste (1695) wax sculpture, Gaetano Zumbo, Museum of Specola, Florence

Science had to wait until the nineteenth century to banish the idea of ​​a supposed supernatural origin of the plague. The fear of a pandemic on a global scale persisted for four centuries (and even longer) after finding that the disease had spread out over vast regions of Asia as well.


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