Today, in the final episode of the Past Pandemics series, we're talking about the Plague of Justinian, the first occurrence ...

Although the Plague of Justinian undoubtedly struck the final blow to the Negev grape industry, the story isn't quite that simple. As we've seen in 2020, political tensions, climate change, and ...

To plague aficionados, the Justinian Plague, which in the 6th century AD is thought to have killed 30 million to 50 million from Asia to Africa to Europe, is hardly a footnote.

The plague of Justinian, the Black Death, and the 500 years of plague outbreaks that followed the Black Death, were all caused by variants of the same bacterium.

The plague has been responsible for three major human pandemics. The first pandemic, which began with the Plague of Justinian, around 541 to 544 AD, continued sporadically until around 750 AD.

The strain of Y. pestis associated with the first plague pandemic was previously recorded as first appearing during the Plague of Justinian, which began in 541. However, ...

The first recorded reports of the plague were in the Egyptian port town of Pelusium during the summer of 541 A.D. For the next 200 years, the Plague of Justinian — named for the Byzantine ...

The sixth-century C.E. Plague of Justinian was “a pestilence, by which the whole human race came near to being annihilated,” according to the Byzantine historian Procopius.

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544.

The strain of Y. pestis associated with the first plague pandemic was previously recorded as first appearing during the Plague of Justinian, which began in 541. However, ...