The Black Death was a deadly and devastating pandemic of bubonic plague that happened in Europe in 1347 and wiped out almost 50 million people in Europe., Most scientists believe that the Black Death was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium and spread by fleas. These fleas inhabited the rodents' bodies as their hosts. When the hosts died, the fleas, Why did people call it The Bubonic Plague? The disease caused the sufferers to have swollen buboes (in the armpits, on the neck, or in the groins). The swellings may appear like the size of an, People who died from this disease usually had black tissue in the bodies. Therefore, the disease was also called the Black Death plague, The Black Death took place for a long time due to the poor knowledge in medicine. Antibiotics had not been invented yet. Another matter was the poor living condition during the Medieval.

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