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 word "plague" has two meanings. "The Plague" is a specific disease, or rather a series of specific diseases: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague etc. On the other hand "a plague" is any rapidly spreading epidemic. The King James Bible, contemporary with Shakespeare, talks about "the plague of leprosy", and obviously leprosy and plague are two very different diseases. It is this secondary sense which Mercutio uses in his curse: he is wishing some unspecified epidemic disease on the Montagues and Capulets, not the specific disease called "the plague".
Bubonic Plague
Plague is one form of infectious disease.
The Bubonic Plague.
What Bubonic plague caused an rapid spreading disease
The Black Plague is a infectious disease.
Disease
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.
yes it is
Two names for the plague are the Black Death and bubonic plague. The Black Death refers specifically to the devastating pandemic that swept through Europe in the 14th century, while bubonic plague is a specific form of the disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, characterized by swollen lymph nodes or "bubo." Both terms highlight different aspects of the same infectious disease.
The horrible disease, plague, was brought in Britain.
no, the plague virus is to spread through air not by mosquito