The Bubonic Plague, or Black Death, had many negative as well as positive effects on medieval Europe. While being one of the worst and deadliest diseases in the history of the world,it indirectly helped Europe break grounds for some of the basic necessities forlife today. The Black Death erupted in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320s, but one really knows why. The plague bacillus was alive and active long before that; as Europe …
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…is that there was more than one variety of plague at work in Europe. There are two other varieties of plague: septicaemic plague, which attacks the blood, and pneumonic plague, which attacks the lungs. The pneumonic plague is especially dangerous as it can be transmitted through the air. Both of these two are nearly 100% fatal. It seems likely that some form of pneumonic plague was at work alongside the bubonic plague in those awful years.