What is Persian plague of 1772–1773?
The '''Persian plague of 1772–1773''' was a time when many people in the [[Persian Empire]] caught a disease from [[flea]]s. At its height, the [[Persian Empire]] was much larger than [[Iran]] and [[Iraq]] today. It included what is now [[Turkey]], [[Egypt]] and [[Libya]]. By the 18th century it had been cut back somewhat, but was still very much larger than the Persia of today. The [[epidemic]] was caused by the [[bacterium]] ''[[Yersinia pestis]]''. It killed two million people. It is one of the deadliest epidemics in history. It reached [[Baghdad]] in 1772 and [[Basra]] in 1773, where it killed about 250,000 people in Basra alone. After that, the epidemic spread to the Persian Gulf. In 1798, there were deaths in [[Mosul]].<ref name=Iran>{{cite journal|journal=Epidemiol Health|title=Plague in Iran: its history and current status|author1=Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki|author2=Elizabeth Carniel|author3=Ehsan Mostafavi|volume=38|page= e2016033|date=July 24, 2016|doi=10.4178/epih.e2016033|pmid=27457063|pmc=5037359}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{medicine-stub}} [[Category:1770s]] [[Category:History of Iran]] [[Category:History of Iraq]] [[Category:History of Persia]] [[Category:Plague pandemics]] [[Category:1772]] [[Category:1773]]