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From the Archives - Historical Impact of the Plague

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Apocryphal Story of the Plague in the Mediterranean

One of the perhaps apocryphal stories, i believe, at the siege of kaffa, and crimea is that the sieging army of the mongols would basically launch plague infected corpses over the city's walls. This bacteria kills about 70 % of the people that get it. And it spreads really well when sanitation is not particularly great. But this story may be apocryphal. I don't know if you want to comment on that before we continue to talk about the history.

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