1. The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
The Black Plague started out in China in the 1330’s.
Originally it only affected rodents, however it quickly spread to humans. .

2. The Black Death Three Forms:
Bubonic
Pneumonic
Septicemic
Bubonic Plague: Mortality Rate: 30-75%. Symptoms: Enlarged or inflamed lymph nodes (Arm Pit, Neck and Groin).

3. The Pneumonic Plague Mortality Rate: 90-95% It infected the lungs, and
the symptoms included
slimy snot tinted with blood!
Many times victims choked
on their own Blood (ew…).

4. Septicemic Plague Mortality rate was close to 100%
Symptoms: High Fever and
skin turning deep
shades of purple!
Victims usually died
the same day the
symptoms appeared.

5. October of 1347, several Italian merchant ships returned from the
Black Sea.
Docked in Sicily, many sailors
were already dying of
the plague.

6. How Did It Affect So Many People?

7. The Oriental Rat Flea Flea’s Mouth has two functions:
squirting saliva or partly digested blood into the bite
for sucking up blood from the host.

8. How Is it Transmitted?

9. “Ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise.”
After Five years 25 million people were dead- One Third of Europe’s people!