The Plague of Justinian — How Millions Died in History's Deadliest Pandemic

In the summer of 541 AD, people left for work
in the morning and never came home.

No warning. No explanation.
Hard dark swellings in the neck, the armpits,
the groin. Entire families gone in days.

At its peak, ten thousand people were dying
every single day in a single city.

This was the Plague of Justinian —
the first pandemic of bubonic plague in
recorded history, the catastrophe that killed
up to fifty million people, ended the last
serious attempt to reunify the Roman Empire,
and changed the course of Western civilization.

You've probably never heard of it.

This is why that matters.

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