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Plague is “an acute, often fatal, and potentially epidemic disease caused by infection with the bacillus Yersinia pestis. The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was Europe's deadliest pandemic plague of the Middle Ages. It was extremely fatal and had terrible symptoms of painful swellings; called buboes, appear in the groin or armpit.The bacillus was highly contagious and if contracted could kill within hours. This horrible plague touched down in Europe in the fall of 1347 and swept across it throughout the mid-fourteenth century having several negative and few positive effects on Europe's culture, politics, population and economy.
Transmitted by the rat flea and primarily a disease of rodents, epidemics in humans begin from contact with the fleas of infected rodents. The disease in man has three clinical forms: Bubonic, the most common form, appears to be the most widespread form during the Black Death and is characterized by swelling of the lymph nodes that......

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