Plague of Cyprian
Pandemic in the Roman Empire (AD 249–262) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Plague of Cyprian was a pandemic that afflicted the Roman Empire from about AD 249 to 262,[1][2] or 251/2 to 270.[3] The plague is thought to have caused widespread manpower shortages for food production and the Roman army, severely weakening the empire during the Crisis of the Third Century.[2][4][5] Its modern name commemorates St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, an early Christian writer who witnessed and described the plague.[2] The agent of the plague is highly speculative because of sparse sourcing, but suspects have included smallpox, measles, and viral haemorrhagic fever (filoviruses) like the Ebola virus.[1][2]