The bubonic plague is a disease. It is carried and spread by fleas on rats. Today, people think the disease came from Asia and that traders from the Silk Road may have brought the infected fleas to Europe. People who were effected by bubonic plague developed symptoms such as fevers, severe flues and buboes (that could swell to the size of an average apple). |
These buboes appeared mainly in the groin, armpit and neck.
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