pandemics

The Justinianic Plague’s Origins and Consequences

Georgiana Bianca Constantin & Ionuţ Căluian · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2021

The bubonic plague is an extremely old disease (apparentely from the late Neolitic era). The so-called “Justinianic plague” of the sixth century was the first well-attested outbreak of bubonic plague in the history of the Mediterranean world. It was thought that the Justinianic P...