Ebola Vs Black Plague

There once was a mother and father with young twin boys, living in Sicily in 1347. A perfect family. This family would not last for long, however. It was in this year that the Plague hit Europe. The disease was spreading throughout their village and there was no escaping it. The parents did everything they could to protect their children, keeping them away from others. Sadly both of the parents contracted the disease and died. This happened to many families during this time and the Plague killed at least 25 million. Ebola was not nearly as bad therefore, Ebola in modern Africa was a better disease to have than the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. This is because Ebola was not as deadly as the Plague, Ebola wasn't around as long as the Plague,
“Poverty… made West Africa especially vulnerable, driving up exposure and fueling the spread of the virus from March 2014 to January 2016 when WHO declared Liberia to be Ebola-free” (“How Nigeria Beat Ebola” 2). There was only about a two year period where Ebola was popular. On the other hand, the Plague lasted many more years than that. It lasted from the years 1346-1353, but there were even cases up until 1750. Likewise, the Plague can still be seen today, “But as recent news reports remind us, we cannot entirely dispatch the plague to the annals of history… Since 1970, there have been anywhere from a few to a few dozen cases of plague every year in the United States” (Storrs 1). There have been a few cases of the Plague in recent years, but there haven’t been any cases of Ebola since the beginning of 2016 and it's not likely to come back. Despite the fact that Ebola is a more recent disease, it is not expected to come back. “The tragedy in most cases is that people don’t realize what they have and think they have the flu” (“How do we still have the plague, centuries after the Black Death?” 1). When someone has the Plague, some of the symptoms are similar to the flu, so some people mistake it for the flu. With Ebola, there probably won’t be a problem because the symptoms are distinct and someone won’t mistake it for other diseases. It is obvious that Ebola was around for a
The Plague was spread from rats and fleas which transferred to humans. There was also lots of different rodents that carried the Plague for everywhere that had the plague. But, Ebola came from the Ebola River and possibly some primates or bats. This is definitely a smaller platform of spreading than the Plague. Ebola was confined while the Plague spread because Ebola stayed in Africa and the Plague spread to multiple continents. Also, Ebola is harder to contract and is not airborne and the Plague spread easier whereas Ebola did not.
All things considered, Ebola in modern Africa was not as bad as the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Ebola was not as deadly, it wasn't around as long, and it was mostly confined. Now the boys are grown up and have families of their own. They think back to their childhood, when they lost their parents to the Plague. They were too young to remember anything and they have no memory of them. They will never even know what they looked like or who they