Problems in the medieval era

Problems in the Medieval Era

Medieval people did not understand the link between disease and germs. Towns remained the breeding ground for infemction and vermin and this resulted in further outbreaks of plague after 1348, one of the last being The Great Plague of London in 1665. There were two types of plague and each spread in different ways.

• Bubonic plague was spread by fleas from black rats. Swellings called buboes appeared in the armpits and the grion followed by a fever, headache a boils all over the body; death occured within a few days. 
• Pneumonic plague was spread by people breathing or coughing germs onto one another; the disease attacked the lungs, causing breathing problems and coughing…