Bubonic Plague vs. Modern day Biological Threats

Bubonic Plague vs. Modern day Biological Threats The Bubonic Plague took Europe by storm in 1348 A.D killing 1/3 of its people. It wiped out over 1000 villages in England. Because of the plague, the lives of every European were drastically altered. But most people don’t even realize is that the Black Death still exists with us in the world today. The difference between modern and medieval reactions to biological threats and actions taken to control …

…caused it though the poison which they are said to have put into the water and the wells---that is what they were accused of---and for that reason the Jews were burnt all the way from the Mediterranean into Germany” (Cantor, 149). The angry and distraught public leapt at the opportunity for blame. As a result, the Jews were burnt to death, and wherever they were expelled they were caught by the peasants and stabbed or drowned.