Such diary entries may sound both complacent and inappropriate when we consider that at least 68,596 people died in the plague out of a total London population of 460,000.

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Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.

A history of the plague. David Tresilian, Tuesday 13 Feb 2024. A 15th-century Arabic disquisition on the plague has appeared for the first time in English translation, writes David Tresilian ...