ase that inflicted the
people also. It is called Pneumonic. The Bubonic plague as well as some form
of Pneumonic plague was at work destroying the lives of innocent people during
The Bubonic Plague is a disease that infects the lymph system. It is
usually fatal (60%), but today doctors have drugs that can cure it. The disease is
bacillus, an organism, usually carried by rodents, primarily rats. Rats carried this
deadly disease, but they did not spread it. The fleas that infest the animals did.
When the flea feeds off of the rat the bacteria in the rats blood infects the flea.
The bacteria is known as Yersinia Pestis (Y. Pestis). This bacteria would block
the "throat" of the infected flea so that no blood could reach its stomach.
Therefore the fleas grew ravenous sinc
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