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The First Signs.

            Usual symptoms a lot of medieval doctors would look for were: high fever, feeling of sickness, chills, headaches, delirium, hemorrhages under skin, darkened skin, white coating on the tongue, sensitivity of light and swollen lymph nodes. These were the common symptoms patients had. If these symptoms show, the doctors knew that the patient had a form of the plague. The doctors had right by law to put the victims of the Black death in a quarantine. If the doctors didn't put then in a quarantine though, then the victims would go back to their houses and try to heal by getting blessed by a priest.

            There would be lab tests held on the victims to see how they got the disease. The tests were also to see if there was any way the doctors or anyone else could help cure the disease. As many times as the doctors held lab tests over and over again, they still couldn't find a stable way to cure the Black Death. There wasn’t a way to cure the Black Death in the middle ages, so most of its victims died. The very few who lived were then immune to the disease though. So the next time the plague came around, they were prepared. After the first round of the Black Death, there were about 3 or 4 more times it struck again in Europe and other countries. The first time though, the plague was the most devastating.

Getting the plague.

            It was very common to get the Black Death in medieval times. Half the population of Europe (between 40-50 million people) died from the plague in seven years. Wow. Whole cities and villages either died or were abandoned in a hope that they wouldn't catch the disease. They victims died so fast that other people didn't have enough time to give each one a propal burial. Either that or no one wanted to risk getting the plague themselves while being so close to the used to be infected body.

            As a result to the quickly dying bodies, the victims would just be thrown in ditches covered by dirt. Hungry dogs would then come by to dig them up then eat them. All types of people got the disease. These people included monks, peasants, the wealthy, men, kings, queens, women, and children. The first sign of the plague was found in a small poor community in Europe. Only two areas survived the disease, one of the areas not greatly affected was Scandinavia. Very few people actually survived the disease. Only every two out of ten people lived. That leaves eight out of ten people to suffer through the disease until it kills them.

Infected areas.

            The plague was found in many places during the medieval times. Usually found in major trade routes and big cities. Major routes the plague was found in included Asia to the Middle East. Mongolia and Northern China through Turkestan, then to the Black Sea region. India through the Indian Ocean (and the Persian Gulf) on cargo s

hips. The plague was also in the Fertile Crescent. Athens was then effected when refugees from other countries fled to Athens while trying to avoid getting the disease.

           The only region that could mildly escape the terrible Black Death was Scandinavia. But even then, some of Scandinavia’s people still had mild cases of the plague. With these mild cases of the Black Death, many people who caught the mild case in Scandinavia survived it. Usually at least one person you knew had the Black Death.So if you were traveling during these times and through these places, you would probably see cases of the plague or get the plague yourself.