Back in June 1348, people in England began reporting mysterious symptoms of some unknown illness. What started off as mild and vague: headaches, aches, and nausea was then followed by painful black lumps, growing in the armpits and groin. This was what gave the disease its name ‘The bubonic plague'. The last stage of this unknown new illness was high fever, and then death.
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The Black Death
The soldiers and caravans had brought bubonic plague – Yersina pestis, a bacterium carried by the fleas that lived on rats – from Central Asia to ports on the Black Sea. The Mediterranean was highly commercialized, and this allowed the plague to swiftly transfer on merchant ships to Italy, and then across Europe. The Black Death killed between a third and a half of the people of Europe and the Near East combined.
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