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A sixteenth-century Petrarchan woodcut shows the Black Death as killing both humans and animals of many kinds as monks pray. The testimony to common impact of the Black Death on both animals and humans is biologically significant (Wellcom Library, London)
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. . . The plague of Justinian struck in the sixth century and killed as many as 50 million people, perhaps half the global population at the time, while the Black Death of the fourteenth century -- likely caused by the same pathogen-- may have killed up to 200 million people. Smallpox may have killed as many as 300 million people in the twentieth century alone, even though an effective vaccine -- the world’s first -- had been available since 1796. At least 25 million, and perhaps far more, died in the 1918 flu virus infected one in every three people on the planet. HIV, a pandemic that is still with us and which still lacks a vaccine, has killed 35 million people and infected 77 million, with more added every year. 182

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