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news-bbc-co-uk-732		BBC NEWS | Health | Past pandemics that ravaged Europe			.html	text/html	1524	122	79	BBC NEWS | Health | Past pandemics that ravaged Europe But this army almost proved the civilisation's downfall, when in AD165, troops returning from campaigns in the east of the empire brought back a disease which killed an estimated five million people. For the next 800 years, Europe was spared the misery of another pandemic, but in the middle of the 14th Century, the Plague of Justinian disease returned only this time it bore another name. From 1347 to 1350, the Black Death killed at least a quarter of Europe's population an estimated 25 million people. There were similar bubonic plague outbreaks in Asia and the Middle East at the same time, indicating that it was a global pandemic. The disease disappeared almost as fast as it had appeared, but by then it had killed an estimated 40 million people, more than had died in World War I, which was coming to an end at the time.	./cache/news-bbc-co-uk-732.html	./txt/news-bbc-co-uk-732.txt