chills and fever, which left him/her exhausted and prostrate. Maybe he/she experienced nausea, vomiting, back pain, and soreness in his arms, on his inner thighs. Soon they turned black, split open, and began to ooze blood and pus.
             Maybe he/she recovered. It was possible to recover. But more than likely, death would come quickly. Yet...perhaps not quickly enough, because after the lumps appeared he/she would start to bleed internally. There would be blood in his/her urine, blood in his feces, and blood puddling under his skin, resulting in black spoils and spots all over his body. Everything that came out of his/her body smelled revolting. He/she would suffer great pain until his/her last breath (Gibbin p.152).
             Rodents like rats and squirrels carried plague, but it is transmitted to humans by fleas that live on them. A flea, having ingested plague-infected blood from its host, can live for as much as a month away from that host before he needs another warm body to live on. When a blood-engorged flea attempts to dr
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