The Black Death was little short of a bacterial apocalypse. The outbreak of bubonic plague, imported along the Silk Road, is thought to have killed between 25m and 50m people as it rampaged through 14th-century Europe. The disease thence resurfaced sporadically: the Great Plague of London, for example, felled a fifth of city dwellers in the 1660s.
當年黑死病幾乎算得上一場細菌末日了。這種從絲綢之路傳入的腺鼠疫在14世紀的歐洲猖獗橫行，據信奪走了2500萬到5000萬人的生命。這種疾病之后偶有再發：比如，17世紀60年代的倫敦大瘟疫殺死了這座城市五分之一的居民。
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