How Did the Black Death Spread?

The Black Death of the 1340s and 1350s was, in terms of the percentage of the population lost, the worst recorded plague in human history. It wiped out as much as a quarter of the world's population, probably including more than half the population of Europe, and records suggest that it sometimes did so in a spectacularly gruesome way—routinely covering its victims in exploding cysts and rotting their extremities with gangrene. It was the pneumonia and not these more visible symptoms that killed most victims, but all told, it was a terrible way to die. The grief and horror that survivors must have felt would have been enough to break anyone's heart, and that's essentially where Europe was in these years leading up to the Renaissance—a grieving, terrified, brokenhearted continent.http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/04/how-did-the-black-plague-spread/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-did-the-black-plague-spread

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