Is the black plague still around?

Answer 1

Pandemic...is was widespread across continents and countries and not just localized like an epidemic.

The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague and Bubonic Plague, was a catastrophic plague that began in Asia and then was spread into Europe between 1346 and sporadically until the late 1700's; peaking between 1347-1351. It killed tens of millions of Europeans. It was caused by a bacterium that was carried by the fleas of rats who gave it to humans when the rats died and the fleas looked for a new host.

Answer 2

By nature, the Bubonic Plague was contagious. It was spread through medieval towns by fleas that carried the bacterium Y. pestis. The fleas fed off of rats, which ran rampant in medieval households due to poor hygiene. When the rat died, the flea would jump to a human and pass the germs to the human as they sucked the human's blood. The rats traveled from port to port and city to city in grain shipments. Because medieval European medicine was primitive, nobody understood how disease passed from person to person, and so they let it happen and viewed it solely as an act of God.

Answer 3

The black plague does still strike a very small number of people today and is treated with antibiotics.

Answer 4

Well, not anymore. However, when it first struck the world, yes, it absolutely was an epidemic.

Answer 5

The black death was epidemic.