The Black Plague was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. It is estimated to have killed between 75-200 million people.
Think of the Black Plague as a computer virus that spreads quickly and wreaks havoc on your system - except this was a real-life virus that affected millions of lives.
Pandemic: An outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population.
Quarantine: A state or period of isolation where people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.
Medieval Medicine: Health practices, approaches, knowledge during the Middle Ages which included aspects from Roman and Greek medicine as well as some independently discovered practices.
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