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Throughout history there were many illnesses and diseases reported; many of them incurable and killed a chunk of the world's population. One of these worldly devastations was the Bubonic plague which took place in the 1300s during the time of the middle ages. This terrible plague had spread from Asia, Europe, to Northern Africa from 1347-1352. An astrologer by the name of Simon de Covinus from Belgium, was the first to write a poem in Latin about the epidemic which he called "mors nogra" meaning Black Death (2004, Byrne, Pg.1).
During the mid-1300s, the bubonic plague first appeared in Asia. A Japanese student by the name of Shibasaburo Kitasato had experimented with the germ accountable for the plague and named it pasteurella pestis. This germ was found among the rodents (black rats) and probably spread by fleas which bit the humans (Byrne, Pg.16). In October of 1347, Italian merchants were sailing to the Black Sea from a trade route in China. The shipmates were struck by the......

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