The Black Death was little short of a bacterial apocalypse. The outbreak of bubonic plague, imported along the Silk Road, is thought to have killed between 25m and 50m people as it rampaged through 14th-century Europe. The disease thence resurfaced sporadically: the Great Plague of London, for example, felled a fifth of city dwellers in the 1660s.
当年黑死病几乎算得上一场细菌末日了。这种从丝绸之路传入的腺鼠疫在14世纪的欧洲猖獗横行，据信夺走了2500万到5000万人的生命。这种疾病之后偶有再发：比如，17世纪60年代的伦敦大瘟疫杀死了这座城市五分之一的居民。
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