Renaissance: Bubonic plague
Symptoms include high fevers and aching limbs and vomiting of blood. Most characteristic is a swelling of the lymph nodes. These glands can be found in the neck, armpits and groin. The swelling protrudes and is easily visible; its blackish coloring gives the disease its name: the Black Death. The death rate was 90% for those exposed to the bacterium. It was transmitted by the fleas from infected Old English black rats. The first symptoms of illness in humans appear without warning in about a week. Within a few, short hours, the body temperature rises to 104 degrees Fahrenheit and the victim begins to vomit, have muscular pains and mental disorganization, then delirium. The disease gains its name from the lymp
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