The Bubonic Plague

This horrible sickness known as the bubonic plague was first introduced during the early 1330s. The bubonic plague was a very dreadful, dangerous, and deadly disease that people suffered during the Middle Ages. This disease caused skins of the victims to turn into a dark black color, so it has also been known as “The Black Death”. The symptoms were inflated around arm pits, neck, and groin. The word “bubonic” referred to “bubo”, which was an enlarged lymphatic gland. Some even chocked on their own blood, because the pneumonic plague affected the lungs. Many victims suffered with nausea, headaches, vomiting, aching joints, high fever, and were very ill from it. The most common form of the Black Death was this bubonic plague, and due to the disease being the most common, this sickness swept more than half of the people in Western Europe instantly.
On October of 1347, numerous Italian merchant ships returned from the Black Sea. The Black Sea was one of most significant...