History 2024 Black Death and Medieval

Question 1

Causes of the Black Death

Answer 1

Yersinia Pestis bacterium inside the gut of a rat flea that then bites a human

Question 2

Symptoms of the Black Death

Answer 2

Fever, headaches, buboes, not speak or move properly, spasms

Question 3

the 3 types of infection

Answer 3

Bubonic plague : Transmitted by the flea
Pneumonic : Through a victim’s sneeze or cough
Septicemic : Transmitting by the flea but directed into the blood stream