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Another name for the plague is the black death
Black plague
the black plague
The black death killed an extremely large amount of people, about 50% of the people in the places it spread to.
The Black Plague is a infectious disease.
That fateful year saw the world's population enduring what is believed to be a recurrence of the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death or the Black Plague. It is further widely believed that the Black Death was responsible for the deaths of 38,000 Londoners that year.
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
The black plague
The black plague. The plague was transferred by rats.
It is the Black Death. (Black Plague, or Bubonic Plague)
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Shakespeare's sister Anne died at the age of 8 from the pneumonic plague, a disease related to the bubonic plague, which was called the Black Death (because of the black swellings or buboes which formed in the lymph nodes). The Black Death or bubonic plague was no longer a problem by Shakespeare's day, although it had killed about a third of the population 300 years earlier, but the pneumonic variety was still a serious health risk.