The Black Death killed as many ... the plague could re-emerge. The plague first hit British shores in 1348 after being spread to Europe by fleas on rats aboard ships from Asia.

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The plague first hit British shores in 1348 after being spread to Europe by fleas on rats aboard ships from Asia ... s population were killed by the Black Death in the following year.

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the Black Death reached Britain. Medieval medicine was incapable of finding a cure, and it is estimated that over 2 million people lost their lives during the outbreak. The Great Plague In 1665 ...