The Black Death was a horrible disease in the Middle Ages that came from China from rats. The fleas on the infected rats would drink up the blood then go to a human and drink some more. The infected...
The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" could be about the black plague. The "pocket full of posies" line may refer to flowers that people held to their noses to avoid the smell of all the dying...
The disease was called the Black Death because one of the symptoms produced a blackening of the skin around the swellings.The Black Death was spread by fleas that were carried by rats or other small...