Black Death

THE BLACK DEATH During the fourteenth century a horrible plague spread across Asia, Europe, and Great Britain. This plague is referred to as the black death. Many people are not quite sure why the disease was given the name. The most popular reason why it might be called the black death is because it left purplish, blackish blotches on the bodies of the sick. “But if the name of the epidemic had been derived primarily …showed first 75 words of 542 total…

…showed last 75 words of 542 total…damaging the economy and population, the epidemic changed the world forever. There is only one good thing that has come out of this tragedy. Bacillus yersinia pestis, the bacteria that started the black death, attacks the body almost the same way that the current disease AIDS does, and the survivors of the black death may have past on genes that make people immune to AIDS. Bibliography Zeiger, Ed. The Black Death. Brewer Inc. New York, 1967.