Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Black Death
- First arrived in Britain in 1348
- Symptoms
- Buboes
- Bursting buboes
- Fever and vomiting
- Black bruises
- Headaches
- DEATH
- Appeared in rapid succession
- Two Types
- Pneumonic
- Spread by sneezing and coughing
- Bubonic
- Spread by flea bites
- Effects
- Devastating
- Between a third and a
half of the population of
Britain died
- Sometimes whole
villages were wiped
out