Causes And Symptoms Of The Black Death

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Have you ever heard of the Black Death or know what it is? Well the Black Death started in early 1340’s and after it swept thereo Asia when it reached europe, in the late 1340’s about 25 million people had died. That was the outbreak that made the black death the black death becauses when an infected person has it they get they big black swellings. Then a couple of days after they began to have internal bleeding which cases big black blotches all over the person body that is infected. Back then they thought that it was contracted by smell. It was obviously not but they did not know that. Now we know that it did not it is spread by body fluids like if you caved in you hand and then shake someone's hand and then they scratch their eye then they had it. The main way that they got it was that they where all getting infected was by the food because they would nibel at the food and then they would eat it and so on and so forth. …show more content…

The first day theys big black swells would appear all over the body that where very painful. Then the second day you would have a really bad fever and be vomiting all over the place. On the third day you started to bleed internally which caused the blood to show up on the skin as big black blotches all over. After your body is full of big black blotches the next day the virus started to attacked the nevis system which causes very very painful muscle spasms. Then on day fifth day sometimes the black swells would bersted and sometimes that meant that the virus had pass but sometimes if not that was the last day and they died from the