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Kaffa (or Caffa), on the Black Sea, was attacked by Tartars in the fall of of 1347. When the attackers began to succumb to plague, they chose to make one last strike before leaving. The tactic worked; although the city's defenders threw the dead bodies into the sea, they could not dispose of the infected corpses before they became infected themselves.
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