Bubonic Plague In The Elizabethan Era

The bubonic plague was the worst disease you can get in the Elizabethan era (1558-1603),The bubonic plague had different names like “the blue sickness”, ”black Plague” or “black death”, the bubonic plague had symptoms like, Situated in the groin, armpit or neck about the size of an egg, tender and warm to the touch, Sudden onset of fever and chills, headache, fatigue or malaise, fever and chills, extreme weakness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, bleeding from your mouth, nose or rectum, or under your skin, shock, blackening and death of tissue in your extremities, most commonly your fingers, toes and nose, and death, people that had the plague would die within three to five days, the black plague was something you could not hide from,
it was caused by fleas and rodents from Asia. The plague was also airborne, seventy five million people died from the plague, William Shakespeare was alive during the Elizabethan time, he was terrified of the black plague his son had the disease and died at eleven years old it was his only son, William Shakespeare actually wrote a play based on the black plague. But another disease came around at the same time, smallpox came after the bubonic plague outbreak but smallpox wasn’t as bad as the bubonic plague, it was deadly and bad to have but you can walk your way around it and have a chance of living, the most common symptoms of the smallpox were flu-like fatigue, headache, body aches, and sometimes vomiting, high fever, mouth sores and blisters that spread the virus into the throat, a skin rash that gets worse in a typical pattern: the rash starts with flat red sores that become raised bumps a few days later. The bumps turn into fluid-filled blisters. The blisters fill with pus. They crust over, usually in the second week of smallpox. Scabs form over the blisters and then fall off, usually in the third week of the disease. They can cause permanent scars. Blindness can happen when blisters form near the eyes.