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There have been a number of significant pandemics recorded in human [[history]], generally [[zoonosis|zoonoses]] which came about with [[domestication]] of animals, such as [[influenza]] and [[tuberculosis]]. There have been a number of particularly significant [[epidemic]]s that deserve mention above the "mere" destruction of cities:
* [[Plague of Athens]], 430 BC. [[Typhoid fever]] killed a quarter of the Athenian troops, and a quarter of the population over four years. This disease fatally weakened the dominance of [[Athens]], but the sheer virulence of the disease prevented its wider spread; i.e. it killed off its hosts at a rate faster than they could spread it. The exact cause of the plague was unknown for many years. In January 2006, researchers from the [[University of Athens]] analyzed [[teeth]] recovered from a [[mass grave]] underneath the city, and confirmed the presence of [[
* [[Antonine Plague]], 165–180. Possibly [[smallpox]] brought to the Italian peninsula by soldiers returning from the Near East; it killed a quarter of those infected, and up to five million in all.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4381924.stm Past pandemics that ravaged Europe]. ''BBC News'', November 7. 2005</ref> At the height of a second outbreak, the [[Plague of Cyprian]] (251–266), which may have been the same disease, 5,000 people a day were said to be dying in [[Rome]].
* [[Plague of Justinian]], from 541 to 750, was the first recorded outbreak of the [[bubonic plague]]. It started in [[Egypt]], and reached [[Constantinople]] the following spring, killing (according to the Byzantine chronicler [[Procopius]]) 10,000 a day at its height, and perhaps 40% of the city's inhabitants. The plague went on to eliminate a quarter to a half of the [[human population]] that it struck throughout the known world. <ref>[http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521846390&ss=fro Cambridge Catalogue page "Plague and the End of Antiquity"]</ref><ref>[http://www.speakeasy-forum.com/lofiversion/index.php/t18579.html Quotes from book "Plague and the End of Antiquity"] Lester K. Little, ed., ''Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750'', Cambridge, 2006. ISBN 0-521-84639-0</ref> It caused [[Medieval demography|Europe's population]] to drop by around 50% between 550 and 700.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-diseases/plague-article.html |title=Plague, Plague Information, Black Death Facts, News, Photos{{–}} National Geographic |publisher=Science.nationalgeographic.com |date= |accessdate=2008-11-03}}</ref>
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