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Plague by H.W. "Buzz" Bernard7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The dead and dying lay in the streets, abandoned by frightened friends and relatives. No one – peasant or aristocrat – was safe from the disease, and once it was contracted, a horrible and painful death was almost a certainty. The plague was much more severe in the cities than in the countryside, but its psychological impact penetrated all areas of society. Those infected usually died within three days of showing symptoms and the death toll rose so quickly that the people of Europe had no time to grasp what was happening, why, or what they should do about the situation. Eventually, a number of the city's inhabitants fled the city by ship, first arriving at Sicilian ports and then at Marseilles and others from whence the plague spread inland. As Djanibek's troops died of the plague, he had their corpses catapulted over the city's walls, infecting the people of Caffa through their contact with the decomposing corpses. ![]()
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