Understanding Diease

Around in the 1300s there was a horrible disease called the bubonic plague. This disease was fount in Europe and was said to be very deadly and contagious. Europe had lost a third of their population to this vicious disease.  This being said their most had been 100 million lives claimed by this deadly disease. This disease still in fact exist in some parts of world today but isn't as deadly as the years before. The scientist are trying to figure out why the disease isn't as contagious and life threathing . Back in the 1300s the disease was so bad of a virus that is was called the ''Black Death''. People contracted this disease when a rodent such as a rat came into contact with a human and the human was bitten by this infected rat. Also human came infected by a flea with a certain bacteria in their mouth that fed on rodents and jumped on a human.  Their our 5 symptom's of bubonic, this includes swollen glands, fever, exhaustion, infection of the blood and lungs. The bubonic plague was spread from the 1347 to 135. This disease was so misunderstood in the 1300s the doctors back then didn't know exactly what to do. Some used old method such as mashed garlic on a wet cloth placed on the bubonic bumps. They also used medicines like dried toad and varities  of roots.