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Plague ( can take three forms as bubonic, pneumonic, or septicemic )

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Yersinia Pestis ( formally known as Pasteurella Pestis )

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The disease can manifest in different ways, and one way was the plague would get into the skin and cause the tissues to die thus turning the skin black.

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Doctors would wear this mask and outfit when treating patients with the plague in order to protect themselves from the disease.

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Medicine back then just wasn't as advanced as it is now, so the disease wasn't as treatable as it is now. How the plague was prevented back then, was similar to what we do today. Since the plague was spreading so fast and the mortality rate was high, a large majority of people would quarantine. People would stay in their homes and only leave when necessary.

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As stated the plague can take many forms so when a person gets bubonic or septicemic plague it can develop into a Yersinia Pestis infection. This happens in the lungs and the symptoms include severe shortness of breath, chest pain, chills, headaches, high fevers, and repetitive non-stop coughing that could bring up blood. Since this disease is so respiratory it can quickly lead to a death if left unchecked.

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Yersinia Pestis is definitely one of the most deadliest diseases for its time. As for treatment back in the 1300's, it is believed that the disease was just so deadly that it exterminated all of its victims. So with the combined quarantining and high mortality rate, the disease caused its own extinction. By 1938 the plague was more controlled and was now treated with sulfonamide and leading to 1946 with streptomycin. These led to the mortality rate being lowered to less than 8%. The three main antimicrobial agents for treating the plague are streptomycin, tetracycline, and chloramphenicol. So now the Plague can be successfully treated with antibiotics.

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Yersinia Pestis is a short gram-negative rod that causes the plague. The disease is of rodents like rats, rabbits, and squirrels. It is transmitted to humans by flea bites or how it was mostly spread was person to person contact through inhalation through the air. Back in the 1300's when the disease was at an all time high, most humans lived upon rats and coexisted with them therefore allowing the disease to spread.