Scientists Reveal What Triggered the Black Death Plague in Europe

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According to a study conducted by researchers in Cambridge and Leipzig, the disease that killed 25 million people in the 1340s may have been caused by the imports made necessary by the famine triggered by its eruptions.

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It was a volcanic eruption that set the dominoes in motion, bringing the plague to Europe in the 14th century. This somewhat unexpected conclusion is drawn by researchers after analyzing tree rings in the Spanish Pyrenees and ice cores in Greenland.

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A recent study suggests that a volcanic eruption around 1345 caused climate cooling, leading to famines in Europe. To deal with it, Italian cities imported grain from the Black Sea, carrying without knowledge the bacterium Yersinia pestis, responsible for the Black Pest.

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The possibility that the Black Death began with a volcanic eruption is being investigated by a new scientific study that has come to light. More...

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A study published on 4 December in Nature Geoscience challenged the traditional view of the causes of the most deadly pandemic in history. Scientists at Copenhagen University suggested that the global cooling caused by a series of volcanic eruptions in the 14th century had prepared the ground for a pandemic of bubonic plague known as the Black Death.