about 200,000 people

On Sunday, September 2, 1666, London caught on fire. The city burned through Wednesday, and the fire—now known as The Great Fire of London—destroyed the homes of 70,000 out of the 80,000 inhabitants of the city. But for all that fire, the traditional death toll reported is extraordinarily low: just six verified deaths.

As in other European cities of the period, the plague was endemic in 17th-century London. The disease periodically erupted into massive epidemics. There were 30,000 deaths due to the plague in 1603, 35,000 in 1625, and 10,000 in 1636, as well as smaller numbers in other years.

By the time King Charles II fled the city in July, the plague was killing about a thousand people a week. The death rate peaked in September when 7,165 people died in one week. Officially, the city recorded 68,596 deaths from the Great Plague, and the true death toll may have exceeded 100,000.

The idea is that there was a silver lining to the tragedy of the fire, as it ended the great plague that swept the city from 1665-66. The fire is supposed to have wiped out London’s rats and fleas that spread the plague and burned down the insanitary houses which were a breeding ground for the disease.

Summary: Yersinia pestis, the deadly bacterium that causes bubonic plague, kills by cutting off a cell’s ability to communicate with other immune system cells needed to fight off the bacterial invasion.

The plague is most prevalent in Africa and is also found in Asia and South America. In 2019, two patients in Beijing, and one patient in Inner Mongolia, were diagnosed with the plague, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Book of Revelation was written sometime around 96 CE in Asia Minor. The author was probably a Christian from Ephesus known as “John the Elder.” According to the Book, this John was on the island of Patmos, not far from the coast of Asia Minor, “because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus” (Rev. 1.10).

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