Sentence examples for medieval pandemic from inspiring English sources
During the second medieval pandemic, which also included the Black Death period, 50% (≈50 million persons) of the human population in Europe reportedly died of plague (2, 4 ).
Y. pestis specific DNA has been detected in medieval skeletal finds (2, 3 ), although some investigators have failed to do so (4 ), leading to the suggestion that a viral hemorrhagic fever was the agent of these medieval pandemics (5 ).
Oddly reminiscent of the pathetic piles of bodies in carts and public graves during the medieval plague pandemic, Weber's fractured figures, lyrical but lifeless, are frozen in time.
This observation challenged the scenario that Antiqua, Medievalis, and Orientalis were responsible for ancient, medieval, and modern plague pandemics, respectively (9 ).
The exclusive positive selection of TLR9 and TLR10 (or TLR1) pathways in Europeans may be related to more recent responses that could have been related to the introduction of agriculture and zoonotic diseases (e.g. Brucella, Coxiella) or the major epidemics of the medieval periods (e.g. Yersinia pestis causing pandemics including pneumonic, septicaemic and bubonic plague).
Discrepancies in epidemiological trends between the medieval disease and modern Y. pestis infections have ignited controversy over the pandemic's aetiologic agent5,6.
The 1918 influenza pandemic is the biggest infectious disease catastrophe on record, topping even the medieval Black Death.
Although the pandemic now called the Black Death lasted no more than six years, according to most medieval historians, the disease behind it erupted periodically in different parts of Europe for the next three centuries, leaving millions more dead in its wake.
