GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Black Death, a plague that killed up to 60% of people in western Eurasia from roughly 1346 to 1353, likely originated in the Tian Shan mountains of central Asia, new research shows.

Detailed explanation-2: -The plague is thought to have originated in Asia over 2, 000 years ago and was likely spread by trading ships, though recent research has indicated the pathogen responsible for the Black Death may have existed in Europe as early as 3000 B.C. READ MORE: See all pandemic coverage here.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most notorious outbreak was the ‘Black Death’ of the 14th century, which wiped out around half the population of Europe. Its arrival in Bombay in the summer of 1896 was part of a deadly pandemic that had originated in China in the 1850s and continued to afflict many parts of the globe until the 1950s.