What Is This Medieval Curse?

 Have you ever had like a real bad cold or fever?  Did you feel like you were going to die from it? Well in 1347 it was a disease called the Black Death Plague and it was basically like the Boston Massacre. The only difference is that what was killing the people was something like a cold but the people died from it.

        The Black Death killed one third to one half of Europe's population.Yikes!!! I'm glad I didn't live in this era. The people died in dirty, cramped, smelly places. In these places fleas and rats lived here and they carried the disease. In paris the death rate was 800 people a day out of the 200,000 population.

The reason it was called the Black death because of a black swelling that was very deadly. The infection caused the victims to rot faster near the time of their death. Eww!!! It's like if the people in the morge ahd were just rotting without the formaldehyde( the medicine used to stop decomposion of the victim for a period of time.).