Case Study: The Black Death

• Was a mixture of the bubonic plague and the pneumonic plague.
• The Bubonic Plague was spread by flea bites carried by rats on ships that caused:

  • headaches
  • fever
  • buboes - puss filled swellings
• The Pneumonic Plague was airborne and spread by coughs and sneezes that caused:

  • difficulty breathing - due to pain
  • coughing up blood
• Black Death arrived in Britain in 1348 and is estimated it killed a third of the population .