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prima:Did you know that... Puerto Rico was the epicenter of two bubonic plague epidemics that changed the urban environment of San Juan?

The increased efficiency and capacity of merchant ships in the late 19th and early 20th centuries facilitated the spread of this pandemic

April 16, 2026 - 1:57 PM

Doctor Simmonds injecting his curative serum in a plague patient, during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India, in 1897. (Wiki Commons)

When we talk about the bubonic plague, it is inevitable to go back to the outbreaks of the infectious disease in medieval Europe which, it is estimated, caused the death of between 30% and 60% of the population of that continent, especially the one that occurred between 1347 and 1353.

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