Because the disease was so easily spread. Fleas would have given the disease to rats, and since people in the Middle Ages lived quite unhealthy lives, there was alot of rubbish and sewage around, which attracted the rats. And some rats would have bitten humans, which would have given humans the Black Death, and then since coughing was one of the symptoms of the Black Death, the disease would have spread rapidly and wiped out whole villages at once.
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
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In medieval times there was little knowledge about medicine or sanitation. So they caught diseases easily and the most common was probably the black death (or bubonic plague). I have listed some common ones here: · Malaria · Flu · Leprosy · Smallpox · Typhoid · Diphtheria · Dysentery I hope this helps =)
The black death
people did not realize Black Death at first. They thought it to be common incidents of fever.
black death can be treated with. Antibacterials, antibiotics and vaccines.
People treated death as a common part of society.
It was known as the Bubonic Plague.
The Jewish communities were blamed for an outbreak of the Black Death.
There was not a lot of workers left because the black death killed them so they demanded more money for there work.
Black Death helped to end feudalism. It also helped to end influence of church over common people.