bubonic

• germ which lived in the blood of black rats and in the fleas

  on their bodies.
• The fleas would hop off the rats onto humans and bite them…passing on the disease.
• Victims would get a fever and large boils (called ‘buboes’) in their armpits, groin and behind their ears. Then the victim would develop

  a rash of red and black spots.
• The illness lasted about a week. Seven out of ten people would die.