The Bubonic Plague: The Black Death Epidemic

All of the people known and loved could vanish in just two to five days. The Black Death was a fast moving disease that began in Europe and was the worst epidemic to ever face earth’s people. There were many theories for how this came about, but no one knew for sure. There were a couple different ways that the disease could spread, but all ended in dreadful symptoms. The doctors tried a few things, but nothing truly helped. The disease moved too quickly to be able to do anything about it. Does this illness still occur today is the big question though. The Black Plague was the world’s most dangerous Epidemic, that killed millions of people and cause a great deal of hardship.
According to History.com “the Black Death came suddenly by sea in October of 1347. It entered Europe by twelve Genos ships anchored at the Sicilian port of Messina. This happened after a long journey across the Black Sea. The disease had completely taken control over these ships because of the rats and the close quarters with the excess amount of people”. This was just the beginning of a long, deadly epidemic …show more content…
“The bubonic plague, which was assumed to be the chief killer in medieval outbreaks, causes painful, swollen nodes around the groin, armpit, or neck and the infection spreads through the bloodstream” (The Atlantic). Symptoms can also consist of fever, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, aches and pains, black boils all over the body called boubes that ooze blood and pus (History.com). “Symptoms usually develop between the first two to seven days after getting infection, but may appear after just one” (medicinenet.com). “If death was going to occur then it would happen within the first two to five days after getting symptoms” (Hallam) which means the people didn’t have much time to get treatment if that’s what they decided to do. If you got this infection there was really nothing anyone could do to cure you, but not for lack of