Diseases

Cyprian Plague

1. Pandemic- an outbreak of a pandemic disease across a whole country. 

epidemic- a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

2.  Named after the first known victim, the Christian bishop of Carthage, the Cyprian plague entailed diarrhea, vomiting, throat ulcers, fever, and gangrenous hands and feet.

3. Possibly starting in Ethiopia, it passed through Northern Africa, into Rome, then onto Egypt and northward.

4. Diarrhea, vomiting, throat ulcers, fever, and gangrenous hands and feet. It is spread by the people living in the area of the origin of the disease. 

5. Every time the disease infected it infected about 5,000 people a day. 

6. Couldn't find the overall number of people killed by these people but 5,000 people a day would have been a lot of people.