The Bubonic Plague

Bubonic Plague - "The Black Death"

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

11:13 AM

Mongols threw dead plague ridden bodies at city walls and soon those people had it

Rats with infected fleas got on boats and then got off in the Mediterranean

People began to die only days after the plague came

Took about four days for the victim to die

One priest helped the sick and lived to describe it

Many people thought this was the last judgment coming

Hundreds died every week

Almost none recovered from it once they got it

First Sicily then Italy then on into the rest of Europe

Some people thought it was the alignment of the stars at fault and the alignment of planets meant death

At the Vatican the pope was constantly surrounded by fire so that fleas and rats couldn't get to him

Doctors didn't help

One priest did get the plague, treated himself, and then recovered

Once he recovered he used his experience to research it

Stayed in one area for a few months and then moved on

By 1350 it was over