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Because the Yersinia pestis bacteria forms back boils on the surface of the skin. Look at the picture at the link below to answer your question. Internal bleeding also cause blood to pool under the skin, turning it black.
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∙ 14y agoBecause people's faces turned black before they died.
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What is the original name for black death?
The black death is also known as 'The Black Plague' but the scientific name for it is the bubonic plague.
What was the bubonic plague called in the middle ages?
The bubonic plague was called the Great Pestilence, Great Plague, or Great Mortality during the Middle Ages. Somewhat later it was called the Black Death. There is a link below.
What is the scientific name for Bubonic Plague?
AnswerThe Black Death is believed to have been caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, and the disease is called bubonic plague. AnswerThe Black Plague was caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, which was formerly Pasteurella pestis. The disease vectors were rodents, especially rats, and fleas. The Black Death or Black Plague was a specific outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe during 1346 to 1351.
What broke out in china and Indian in 1344 also know as the black death?
The Plague, also called the Bubonic Plague or Black Death, broke out in China and India in 1344.
What disease nearly wiped out of the population of Europe during the Middle Ages?
It was called Black Death, Black Plaque and Bubonic Plaque.
What was the black death also called?
The bubonic plague.
What was it called when fleas carried by rats were killing europeans?
The answer is bubonic plaque
What is the real common name for plague?
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
What was the disesase called black death?
The Black Death was almost certainly the bubonic plague.
The black death in England was also called what?
the bubonic plague
What Was another name for bubonic plague?
Another name for the plague is the black death
What is the original name for black death?
The black death is also known as 'The Black Plague' but the scientific name for it is the bubonic plague.
What is bubonic death?
This is a very nasty infectious disease, usually called the Bubonic plague, or the black death (but not the bubonic death). It has killed a lot of people.
What is the disease called the rats in 1377?
The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
What are the examples of plague?
bubonic plague & the black death. (:
What is one deadly plague?
bubonic plague or the black death
What was the dangers in the medieval times?
It is the Black Death. (Black Plague, or Bubonic Plague)
