Yellow fever is caused by a mosquito-borne virus, although I’m sure there were many previous epidemics that went unrecorded, the one that made it to rhe recoded history was epidemic of yellow fever in South America in the 16th century. Continue reading
The Plague of Justinian was documented to have originated in Egypt, during the early years of the 6th Century and arrived in the Eastern Roman Capital of Constantinople (Modern day Istanbul, Turkey) in 542 CE. Continue reading
In 552 CE, Japan experienced an epidemic, most likely Smallpox, a very contagious disease. Continue reading