The Bubonic Plague took Europe by storm in 1348 A.D killing 1/3 of its people. It wiped out over 1000 villages in England. Because of the plague, the lives of every European were drastically altered. But most people don't even realize is that the Black Death still exists with us in the world today. The difference between modern and medieval reactions to biological threats and actions taken to control them is the answer to why we don't suffer from the bubonic Plague and such of the like today.

"Human infection [of the bubonic plague] usually occurs in areas of unsanitary living conditions where the humans come into close contact with rats" (ponderosa-pine). Since rodents were com

The angry and distraught public leapt at the opportunity for blame. As a result, the Jews were burnt to death, and wherever they were expelled they were caught by the peasants and stabbed or drowned.

"In the matter of this plague the Jews throughout the world were reviled and accused in all lands of having caused it though the poison which they are said to have put into the water and the wells---that is what they were accused of---and for that reason the Jews were burnt all the way from the Mediterranean into Germany" (Cantor, 149).

For lack of explanation, many people blamed the Jews. They tortured them until the Jews would "admit" that they were part of a conspiracy to kill the Christians.

The government issued ordinances to t

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Plague Human, Plague Europe, Germany Cantor, Black Death, Bubonic Plague, bubonic plague, jews burnt, biological threats,
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