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Fast
Facts
One third of the population of Europe died from the Plague.
(Most likely) More woman died of the Plague. This is because women tended to stay in the comtaninated house longer.
About 137 million victims died of the Bubonic Plague.
Mortality 50-90% if untreated; 15% when diagnosed and treated.
In Chapter 5 of A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman provides the following
statistics:
- While the plague raged, Pisa and Vienna lost 500 people a day.
- Florence, Venice, Hamburg and Bremen lost a minimum of 60% of their populations.
- At the peak of the epidemic, Paris lost 800 people a day, and by the end of
its long run with the disease (which lasted there until 1349), half its population of 100,000 people had died.
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