Bubonic Plague: The Black Death In Europe

It's 1348, towns are full of the smell of burnt flesh and death, the dead are being burned on the outskirts of town. The event leading to this started in 1347, with a genoese trading ship entering the port city of Messina bringing with it the most catastrophic pandemic in European history, the "Black Death". How it started, the effects, the disease, how it works, and the Black Death in modern times are all thing you will learn about Europe's most destructive plague. Once the Black Death entered Europe it quickly spread to most European countries. No one who caught the disease survived, even though, now a days the Black Death has a 11% mortality rate in the United States when untreated, and is highly contagious. In fact most Europeans didn't view it as a …show more content…
This particular bacteria spreads through body fluids, and animal bites. This bacteria leads to plagues such a Bubonic, Septicemic, and pneumonic plague. People catch Bubonic plague fists, and it can turn into septicemic(septicemic can turn into pneumonic), or pneumonic. Bubonic starts with lumps of bacteria forming on skin, they are similar to tumors, but are actually lymphatic node, or buboes. They nodes can grow to the size of a egg, or Apple, then the nodes start appearing on the skin in other areas. Bubonic plague also cause weakness, fever, chills, headaches, and strep throat. Septicemic plague has similar symptoms, but skin that is infected starts to turn black, and die. The boils start to ooze puss, and blackened blood. Then comes pneumonic plague which causes pneumonia, and lung failure, which was basically a death sentence in the 13nth century. Pneumonic plague also causes sneezing, and coughing, and is the fastest spreading version to because it can also spread through snot, and spit. The Black Death was a combination of these plagues (information gotten from