What insect is credited with spreading the Black Death in 1347?
Black Death, or the Black Plague or Bubonic Plague, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis (Plague), [1] but recently attributed by some to other diseases. The origins of the plague are disputed among scholars. The Black Death About the Disease What was this disease? Bubonic plague is the medical term. It is a bacillus, an organism, most usually carried by rodents. Fleas infest the animal (rats, but other rodents as well), and these fleas move freely over to human hosts. The flea then regurgitates the blood from the rat into the human, infecting the human. The rat dies. The human dies. The flea’s stomach gets blocked and it eventually dies of starvation. It’s a grim disease for everyone. Symptoms include high fevers and aching limbs and vomiting of blood. Most characteristic is a swelling of the lymph nodes. These glands can be found in the neck, armpits and groin. The swelling protrudes and is easily
