Black Plague in Modern Society

From about 1347 to 1351, the first and most virulent cycle of the bubonic plague, Black Death, spread throughout Europe and the Mediterranean area from Asia. The disease, caused by black rats and the fleas living on them, usually caused fevers, swellings of black blood and pus the size of apples in the armpit and groin area, and death within the first five days of infection, or in respiratory cases, caused the victim to die in 24 hours. The disease affected the daily life of Middle Age Europeans, from mass quarantines, fear of death, no public activities, and the theory of contagiousness.
If a disease were to strike modern society and doctors had no answers, our ordered society would crumble into anarchy, similar to the “government” in Iraq today. The physical aspects of a disease like the bubonic plague would strike fear into people, for who wouldn’t be afraid of a disease that caused mass disfiguring swelling? We are a society dependent on appearance. One of the reas...