Black+Death

= = = **__Bubonic Plague__** = = = = = = = = = =**Introduction**= The Black Death was a serious disease. It would kill many people, one third of the population of Europe. It came from Asia on trade boats. On the trade boats there were rats that had the disease and the fleas would go bite the humans it would inject the disease and you would have big black sores.

=**Symptoms**= Doctors told their patients to lookout for high fever, black boils as big as an apple or an egg, instant shaking and spiting black blood. The boils would burst black blood or pus. If you got sick you would live for 48 hours. Other people could catch the disease by coughing or sneezing.

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= = =**Remedies-Treatments**= They thought taking a bath with vinegar would stop the disease from infecting you.Also, wearing a lucky “bezoar stone” might protect you. Not eating rich foods or drinking wine would prevent of getting the bubonic plague. They would burst the boils with a hot iron needle because they thought it would cure the person. Nothing they tried worked.

== =**What to do with the bodies**= First they brayed the people normally in grave but then so many people died they would make big pits and throw all of the people in it.

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=**Conclusion**= I’m glad I wasn’t alive in the Middle Ages because of the bubonic plague and I won’t chase rats anymore! I hope not too much people die because of it.