They quarantined the houses and burned the bodies. It didn't work much.
It is the Black Death. (Black Plague, or Bubonic Plague)
The Bubonic Plague killed nearly 80 to 90 percent of the population killing 1 out of every 3 people. the cause of the plague were fleas which were carried by rats which lived on boats. The people didn't know what was causing the plague at the time and thought it was a message from God. Hope this helps!
Starting back in the bubonic plague times, 1,337,321,666,117 people have died.
Yersinia pestis is the bacillus that causes the Black Death (Bubonic Plague).
It was the Bubonic Plague (Black Death).
People who died during the bubonic plague were usually placed in the handle of a giant cataput then launched to the other side of their wall.
There is one event, which is the Black Death, or Bubonic Plague in medieval times. People believed that the cats carried the plague, but they made a big mistake in killing off the cats. The cats were natural predators of rats, the actual carriers of the plague. Decrease of cats means increase of rats, plague, and victims.
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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.
The Bubonic Plague was the biggest killer wiped out half of the Europeans during Medevil times
The Black Death was an outbreak of the bubonic plague, which lasted from about 1347 to about 1352, in Europe. A lot of people refer to the bubonic plague as the Black Death, however, and taken from that point of view, it is still around today, though not as an epidemic. The last widespread outbreak begin in 1855 and lasted as a pandemic until 1959. Usually, a few people get it each year, but it is usually fairly easily treated by modern medicines.
Discuss the bubonic plague or make a story as if you were some1 living during the medieval times.