Black_Death

Black Death The Black Death What was the Black Death and how did it occur' The Black Death also called the Black Plague, or the Bubonic Plague, was a plague that started in Asia and came to Europe in the 1300’s by ships. These were ships that were involved in trade and delivering goods, however these ships also carried rats, which were inflicted with the disease. The rats contained fleas, which carried harmful bacteria. As the flea sucks the victims blood it also releases blood at the same time, releasing the bacteria. When the bacteria invade the lymph nodes it causes painful swelling, infection of the bloodstream, boils, and also caused the skin to become black. The first symptoms of infection are headaches, dizziness, vomiting, and aching joints. Though many times there were no symptoms, the most visible sign of the plague, person, black, death, bacteria, blood, ships, pneumonic, disease, bubonic, symptoms, spread, rats, occur, nodes, lymph, invade, infection, europe, coughed, carried, because, about, worse, vomiting, visible, victims, transmitted, trade, times, time, though, third, swelling, susceptible