This plague was the Bubonic Plague. The death rate was 90%. It was transmitted by the fleas from black rats. The symptoms were: swollen lymph nodes, high fever, and delirium. Sometimes the lungs became infected and coughing, sneezing, or simply talking spread it from person to person.

There are three types of the Bubonic Plague. They are septicemic and bubonic which are spread through the bite of an infected flea, and pneumonic which is airborne through coughing up of saliva.

The Bubonic and Septicemic type is spread through a bite of a flea. Rats, humans, and fleas were hosts for the disease. The bacterium that causes the Black Plague lives in the stomach of the flea. The bacteria multiplies so much that the bacteria blocks the feeding tube of the flea. This ends up that the flea is really hungry, so it bites a host so much to try to get some blood, that the bacteria from the feeding tube flows into the wound. Then the fl

The plague had spread as far north as England, where people called it "The Black Death" because of the black spots it produced on the skin. A killer had come to Europe; their medicine could not cure or do anything to prevent it. Although, in the winter, the plague stopped, but this was only because the fleas that carried the disease were hibernating. Then in the spring, the plague erupted into a wave of death. After each spring for five years twenty five million people had died. That is one-third of Europe’s population. The three most devastating periods of the plague were in the 16th, 14th, and 17th centuries. The estimated death toll was 137 million victims.

The Bubonic Plague disappeared in the 16th century, but the medieval times, never really healed. Soon Europe recovered and went on into the Renaissance. The Bubonic Plague killed twenty five million within five years. This huge amount of people was devastating in the work force and in the development of art and the literature.

There were some ways of containment that did work during those times. In the cites of Milan and Venice, the city officials would wall up any house that had someone sick with the plague. If there were healthy in there, they would be locked

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