Virulence and Mortality Rate
The number of deaths will always be uncertain. Modern scholars believe that the plague killed up to 5,000 people per day in Constantinople at the peak of the pandemic. It ultimately killed perhaps 40% of the city's inhabitants. The initial plague caused the deaths of up to a quarter of the human population of the eastern Mediterranean. New, frequent waves of the plague continued to strike throughout the 6th, 7th and 8th centuries AD, often more localized and less virulent. One high estimate is that the Plague of Justinian killed as many as 25 million people across the world.
After the last recurrence in 750, major epidemic diseases did not appear again in Europe until the Black Death of the 14th century.
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