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THE BLACK DEATH

THE CAUSE OF THE BLACK DEATH

THE EFFECTS OF THE BLACK DEATH

MEDICAL PRECAUTIONS TODAY

HOW THE BLACK DEATH SPREAD

 

In the year 1347, in the southern Ukraine near the Black Sea, the native people began dying of a mysterious disease. They suffered from headaches, weakness, and staggering when they tried to walk. Lymph nodes in the groin and underarm areas begin to swell to the size of hen's eggs. These swellings were called buboes and led to the official name of their aillment, the Bubonic Plague. These natives called the plage the pestillance and were often dead by the fourth day of contraction.