Short And Long Term Effects Of The Black Death

The Black Death was a plague that spread across Europe during the fourteenth century. It swept the continent and baffled millions of European citizens. I chose this topic because the idea of the past epidemic intrigues me. In elementary school, we touched on the topic and barely discussed the possible outcomes. I was fascinated by what could've happened those years of peril. I am of Polish descent, so I am also learning how this plague could have affected by ancestors and what they were put though during that era.
This disease that was spread had fatal symptoms. It appeared almost suddenly from nowhere, believed to first begin in India. Guy de Chauliac, the physician of the Pope, explained that the disease caused high fever, expectoration of blood, and death in no more than three days. Later on, more symptoms and other forms of the disease were detected. People did receive high fevers, but no bleeding from the respiratory tract. Instead victims of the plague experienced chills, headaches, and other symptoms. The most obvious symptom that stood out to all the citizens was the lumps that appear on the neck, armpit or groin. Usually they appeared after five to seven days after being infected. The epidemic was later called the Black Death because one of the symptoms caused blackening of the skin.
The bacteria can come in four, different forms: bubonic, pneumonic, enteric, or septicemic plague. This plague usually is discovered living in a flea known as Xenopsylla cheopis. The particular flea lives on mammals, especially rodents. The Yersinia pestis living in the flea’s stomach grows multitudinously and blocks the flea from swallowing. The flea then will regurgitate the bacteria onto the rodent, which will eventually kill it. Once the host is dead the flea goes to find another host; if that host is human and he or she receives the plentiful amount of Yersinia pestis, then the epidemic will start once