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Biggest pandemics in the world: the 15 diseases that most marked history in number of deaths

With the current coronavirus pandemic, it is normal for people to be curious about similar cases from the past. Get to know the biggest pandemics in the world now.

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11. Great Plague of Marseille: 100,000 deaths

The third city taken by Great Plague was Marseille, located in the south of France and considered the main French port for commercial exchange with the East.

It was through him that the Black Death entered the fourteenth century and, four centuries later, returned brought by the merchant ship Grande Santo Antônio from Sidon, Lebanon.

When docking in Marseille, several crew members were dead, and the ship needed to be quarantined by the port authorities.

The third city taken by the Great Plague was Marseille, located in the south of France and considered the main French port for commercial exchange with the East.

However, as we well know, economic pressure is capable of reversing any sanitary measures.

In Marseille, it was no different.

Powerful merchants in the city interested in the ship's cargo of silk and cotton put pressure on the authorities, who relaxed the measures.

A few days later, the disease broke out in the city and hospitals were quickly overwhelmed.

To prevent the spread of the plague, the death penalty was even applied to anyone trying to leave Marseille.

In two years, the disease killed 100,000 people, but, fortunately, it was the last bubonic plague epidemic in Europe.

About the author  /  Priscilla de Cassia

Graduated in business administration and tax auditor, she has been a freelance writer since 2016 to cultivate her hobby for writing and to earn extra income. Currently, he writes about financial life, credit cards, air miles and travel, as well as curiosities in general.

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