The Black Plague was incredibly fatal. Nearly half of the people who contracted the infection died from it, resulting in a loss of 25-60 percent of Europe's entire population. The disease also spread frighteningly quickly, wiping out entire villages before anyone could do anything to stop it. As the name implies, the Black Death was more often than not a death sentence.

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