Bubonic Plague 2

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It hit Alexandria in the autumn of that year, and by spring 1348, a thousand people a day were dying there. In Cairo, Egypt, the count was seven times that. The disease traveled by ship as readily as by land and it was no sooner in the eastern Mediterranean than it was in the western end as well. Already in 1347, the plague had hit Sicily. By winter the plague had reached mainland Italy. By January of 1348, the plague was in Marseilles, and it reached Paris in the spring of 1348. By September of 1348 the Bubonic Plague had worked its way into
Bubonic plague was caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis. It is an organism most usually carried by rodents. Fleas infest the rodents (rats, but other rodents as well), and these fleas move freely over to human hosts. The flea then regurgitates the blood from the rat into the human, infecting the human. The rat dies. The human dies. The flea’s life is not effected (Gregg 126).
Symptoms include high fevers, aching limbs and ...

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