WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of Central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road, reaching the Crimea by 1346. It was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships.

Detailed explanation-2: -pestis genomes that trace the pandemic’s origins to Central Asia. View of the Tian Shan mountains. Studying ancient plague genomes, researchers traced the origins of the Black Death to Central Asia, close to Lake Issyk Kul, in what is now Kyrgyzstan.

Detailed explanation-3: -The plague that caused the Black Death originated in China in the early to mid-1300s and spread along trade routes westward to the Mediterranean and northern Africa. It reached southern England in 1348 and northern Britain and Scandinavia by 1350.

Detailed explanation-4: -Black rats were the most common at this time, and carried the bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which caused the plague. The rats then spread it to fleas that lived on their bodies. The fleas would drink the blood of infected rats, swallowing harmful bacteria. They then passed the infection onto humans by biting them.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1855, the so-called “Third Pandemic” of bubonic plague broke out in Yunnan Province, China. Another outbreak or a continuation of the Third Pandemic-depending upon which source you believe-sprang up in China in 1910. It went on to kill more than 10 million, many of them in Manchuria.