Interesting facts
- Black Death is also known as the Great Mortality or the Pestilence
- The name Black Death wasn’t used at the time
- 75 to 200 million people died during the Black Death
- Symptoms included Tumours (buboes or gavocciolos), acute fever, vomiting of blood
- Nostradamus (see his picture below) was one of the first plague doctors
- Cats and Rats Were Infected but Dogs Were Fine
- William Shakespeare Witnessed the Terrifying Consequences of the Black Death
- The Term Quarantine Was Coined during the Black Death Era
- A Village Voluntarily Went into a Shutdown to Stop the Disease Spreading
Go through the following as a quick overview of the Black Death