Officials quarentined ships and caravans from cities
plague continued spreading and many people died, which led to the black death
Since it was not commonly known that bubonic plague was carried by the rat flea, it was generally assumed to be a supernatural affliction. Healers tried to ward off the plague by wearing masks and reciting incantations. The effectiveness of these methods in unknown but severely doubted. People killed all the rats and pets. They buried dead bodies deep and burnt everything.
What Bubonic plague caused an rapid spreading disease
People captured and killed all rats. They also burnt them after.
antibiotics
The plague was spread by fleas that lived on the rats.
people tried different home remedies. Such as vinegar shower, vein cutting etc.
Basically, since science and medicine was based purely on superstition, they did things that didn't work at all. Such things included: -Smoking out the room - One bad smell counteracts the other! -Draining all the bad blood.
They did not know that plague was spread by vermin, so the did not kill off anything.
fleas bit rats that had poisonous blood and then bit humans humans traveled by ships (trading) spreading it then people left their towns going to others spreading it so on
Go near other people. Their bodies were just piled once they died, it was spreading so fast.
spreading like a spry