The bubonic plague took one-third of the European population, violently attacking peoples’ lives. It was the last time a disease took down the world population. It spread fast because no one was sure how it spread or what it was, so they had no way of stopping it at the time. One of the only diseases comparable to the bubonic plague is AIDS. AIDS has taken many lives because at first no one knew what it was or how to control it; even now no one has found a cure.

One of the reasons the HIV virus spread so quickly was because of drug use. It is known that people who use drugs and share their needles can spread HIV quickly and drug users are more likely to have unprotected sex. Alcohol can also be considered a drug. After consuming alcohol, peo

Some of the differences in the diseases involved how society tried to treat the diseases. The bubonic plague had to run its course through Europe and take the lives it did. The only reason it was devastating at the time, is that Europe did not have the vaccines or medicine to kill the diseases. In modern times, the plague is still deadly if left untreated. But, it is easy now to tell if someone has it and it can be quickly treated. Even though the pathogens are still around even in the USA, antibiotics, health departments, plague control and vaccines prevent this disease from becoming epidemic or pandemic.

Peoples’ fear of both diseases, AIDS and bubonic plague, are similar. When the bubonic plague hit Europe, people were terrified of getting it so they fled their homes and towns. They would even leave their crops and cattle. Now when people discover someone has AIDS, they try keep away from the AIds victims, o

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