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The one that occurred in 688–689, called the Plague of al-Jarif, is said to have killed two hundred thousand people in three days. Even though that number is likely to be exaggerated, it still suggests an enormous loss of life. The Lasting Effects of Justinian’s Plague The Plague of Justinian killed at least 25 million people worldwide, wiped whole towns out of existence, and decimated the population of the empire for decades to come. It has been said by some historians that the Plague of Justinian was at least partially responsible for the final end of the Roman Empire and the rise of Europe and its individual nations.

Doctors and scientists from many countries descended on China in an effort to study the disease firsthand. One of the first on the scene in Canton was James Lowson, director of medical services in the British colony of Hong Kong, a small peninsula on the southeastern coast of China. He had heard that the plague was spreading to Hong Kong, and by May 10 twenty cases had been reported in the hospital there. Lowson left Canton and returned to Hong Kong, where he turned the ship Hygea into a floating hospital.

The next year Mongol invaders brought the plague to Caffa (today called Feodosiya), a trading city just across the Black Sea from Constantinople. The invasion failed, as the Mongol army was all but destroyed by the disease they had brought. It is said that before giving up, the Mongol invaders launched their last attack on Caffa by using catapults to hurl the bodies of warriors who had died from plague over the walls of the city in order to spread the disease to the people inside. Whether the story is true or not, 41 A young boy is pictured with marmots killed by his father.

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