How Did The Bubonic Plague Affect Europe

What was the Bubonic Plague and what made the disease spread so far, so rapidly and kill millions of people. How did the Bubonic Plague affect Europe? The Plague vastly affected millions of lives in Europe, but it also affected millions of lives around the globe. The Plague is still, up to current date one of the largest disease outbreaks in recorded history. The Bubonic Plague was a disease that originated in Turkey in 1347. It was caused by the fleas that lived on rats. The fleas have a bad bacteria in their stomach, but the bateria can make it to a point in which the flea gets sick and bites a rat; the bad bacteria is then passed onto the rat and gets into the bloodstream. All of the fleas who bite the infected rat will then absorb the plague and pass it on to other rats or humans. "The other thing that made the pneumonic form of the
What made things even worse were the current medicinal advances... there weren't any until later on. "14th Century Cures: Witchcraft: To Aid recovery you should drink a glass of your own urine twice a day or cut open the swelling to allow the disease to leave your body..." (Beware, Source 1) In the 1700's Europe then had the about the same amount of people before the plague outbreak. "By then medicine and sanitation were improving, which helped prevent large outbreaks of bubonic plague" (The Black Death, Source 2) Medicine was key, in stopping the spread of the plgue, but since they were not available in the 1340's the plague did what it