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Volcanic eruptions could have fueled the spread of the Black Death plague across medieval Europe, according to a new study ...
New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried imported grain to fill the gap came plague-carrying fleas.
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A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.
New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...
The study’s authors believe that these grain ships arrived with stowaways: plague-infected fleas. Once in Europe, the fleas ...
A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...