History: The Plague of Justinian (541-549 AD) was the first docu…

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Did you know? The Plague of Justinian (541-549 AD) was the first documented plague pandemic in history. It killed an estimated 25-50 million people in the Byzantine Empire — one-third of the population. Today DNA analysis confirms: it was indeed Yersinia pestis, the same bacterium as the later Black Death (1347).

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The Plague of Justinian (541-549 AD) was the first documented plague pandemic in history. It killed an estimated 25-50 million people in the Byzantine Empire — one-third of the population. Today DNA analysis confirms: it was indeed Yersinia pestis, the same bacterium as the later Black Death (1347).

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