The "Black Death" was one of the most horrifying and shocking pandemics in Medieval history. ... Both Craig and Marks define the plague as being "introduced by sea-borne rats"1 and that "it is a result of bacillus, a disease-producing bacterium (Pasteurella pestis), that was endemic among burrowing rodents.... Craig states that the rats came from "areas around the Black Sea" and that the disease "entered Europe through the port cities of Venice, Genoa, and Pisa in 1347.... " I think the way people acted after the Black Death makes sense. ... Craig ...

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