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The Black Death
The Black Death, possibly the worst disaster ever to hit Europe, was a series of three different plagues that killed one-third to one-half of the population of the continent from 1347 to 1351 (Cohen, 1974). Plague was once the general term given any widespread disease that caused a large number of deaths; what was once called a plague is now called an epidemic. A pandemic is an epidemic that covers a vast area. The Black Death was a pandemic of the disease that medieval man called the Plague. The Plague was an infectious fever caused by the Pasteurella pestis bacilli (The Black Death: Was it caused by rats or viruses?, 2001). This disease, commonly referred to as the bubonic plague today, is primarily a disease of wild rodents, most commonly the black rat (Cohen, 1974).
The black rat's home was originally in China, but during the Christian era, it slowly began to spread throughout Europe. By the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the black rat was......

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