Bubonic Plague is a contagious, often fatal epidemic disease which killed a third (50 Millon) of the
world'
s population of Europeans and Asians in the 1430's. The bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted from person to person, a
bite of a flea from an infected host, and a
bite from an infected rat.It is characterized by chills, fever, vomiting,
bloody semen, diarrhea, the formation of buboes, inflamed lymph nodes (around armpits, neck, and groin), pain areas in the abdomen or muscles, coughing blood, the whole body would feel fever, chills, fatigue, or malaise, Gastrointestinal (nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea), and commonly, bleeding, delirium, headache, phlegm, shortness of breath, or swollen and tender lymph node.