Dave P. <imbibe@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Did the ?Black Death? Really Kill Half of Europe? New Research Says No.
> By Carl Zimmer, Feb. 10, 2022, NYT
>
> In the mid-1300s, a species of bacteria spread by fleas and rats
> swept across Asia and Europe, causing deadly cases of bubonic plague.
> The ?Black Death? is one of the most notorious pandemics in historical
> memory, with many experts estimating that it killed roughly 50 million
> Europeans, the majority of people across the continent.
>
> ?The data is sufficiently widespread and numerous to make it likely
> that the Black Death swept away around 60% of Europe?s population,?
> Ole Benedictow, a Norwegian historian and one of the leading experts
> on the plague, wrote in 2005. When Dr. Benedictow published ?The
> Complete Black Death? in 2021, he raised that estimate to 65%.
>
> But those figures, based on historical documents from the time,
> greatly overestimate the true toll of the plague, according to a
> study published on Thursday. By analyzing ancient deposits of pollen
> as markers of agricultural activity, researchers from Germany found
> that the Black Death caused a patchwork of destruction. Some regions
> of Europe did indeed suffer devastating losses, but other regions
> held stable, and some even boomed.

The figure I had seen,decades ago,was a third of the population.
I think the book "The Great Mortality" said it reached half in
especially hard-hit areas.
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/science/black-death.html

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