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Origins The Bubonic Plague aka the Black Plague is believed to have originated in Central Asia It spread to Europe by the 1340’s.

In total it is belived to have killed 75 million up to 50 million in Europe alone, which was about 60% of Europes population.

There is evidence that the black plague returned to Europe every generation of the disease until the 1700’s. Some noteable mass infections are London, Italy and Vienna At one point in the 1400s the outbreak was so bad that it resulted in a fear of minorities, which stemed from a fear of infection.

Spread

The way the plague is believed to have spread from continent to continent by rats on ships. It was actually the fleas on the

rat that contained the plague first. The spread was generally on brown rats.

After it arrived and is transmitted to the first human, wide spread infection generally occurred

Symptoms

Black Death is form of blood poisoning, its an pnemonia and it attacks the lungs before the rest of the body.

Sypmtoms

Bleeding, puss oozing soares called buboes. Appearing in the neck groin and armpits. These sores caused internal bleeding. The victim usually dies within days of infection. 4 out of 5 people died within eight days of infection.