Bubonic aka Black Death and Black plague
Thought to have been spread by rats
Plague in three forms
- People suffer an infection of the lungs, which leads to breathing difficulties, corruption or contamination will result in death within two days
- Another where boils erupt under the armpits
- Last form in which people of both sexes are attacked in the groin
- Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe
- Was caused by flea transmission
- The Oriental rat flea species of flea is the primary vector for the transmission of Yersinia pestis, the organism responsible for bubonic plague in most plague epidemics. Both male and female fleas feed on blood and can transmit the infection