The Bubonic Plague or Black Death actually spread to Western Europe through Sicily. Supposedly transported there by Genoese sailors on a trip from the Crimean area who docked in Messina. The date of...
Yes, the bubonic plague was world wide because it was spread by a bacterium called yersenis pestis. This bacterium was found insoil and on fleas, this spread to rats then humans. The pneumonic plague...
Today, when people say the plague as in a disease, they generally mean the bubonic plague. However, there are three types of plague: - bubonic - the kind with the swollen lymph nodes called buboes,...