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 * The Black Plague**

During the Midieval to Renassance, do to the poor sanitation of the people in this time, many sicknesses and diseases were easily spread. One of the most dangerouse diseases, that was spread very easily, was a disease known as the boubonic plague, or the Black Death. This desease, which is spread like most plagues, by fleas that travel on rats. When a flea gets on a rat, it infects the rat with the disease. As it is doing this, it is also reproducing, making young fleas that also possess the disease. Because the disease is carried by fleas, which are a near microscopic bug, the people of the period didn't kniw what caused the disease, which lead to them using bad methods to contain the disease. These methods include leaving the bodies in the street, pilling them on top of each other, and burning massive piles of them. The people thought the plague could be stoped through religouse means, as they thought it was caused by gods wrath. The plague itself is a bacterial infection. Symptoms of which include a high fever, smooth, painful lymph gland swelling called a buboe, which give the disease its modern name, the boubonic plague, commony found in the groin, but may occur in the armpits or neck, and the pain start in the area before the boubos formed. other symptoms were chills, a general ill feeling, muscle pain, severe headache, and seizures. The Scientific name for the disease is //yersinia pestis.//



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