The Black Death Ravaged Europe for Four Agonizing Years (482 words, 1 pages)
Black DeathPlague is a term applied randomly in the Middle Ages to all fatal epidemic diseases, but now restricted to an acute, infectious, contagious disease of rodents and humans, caused by a short, thick bacillus, Yersinia pestis. In humans, plague occurs in three forms bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and septicemic ...
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