Bubonic Plague

The Black Death: Bubonic Plague In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn …

…site see: Black Death Spreads The Plague: Will it Ever End? I Saw the Death The Medieval Miracles of Healing -- Medical Science For more accounts at different sites see: The Plague: an account from Boccaccio's The Decameron Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe The Plague - created by a Texas high school student The Black Plague - graphic intensive and loads somewhat slowly, but contains excellent pictures and an interesting account ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**