Black Death (1347-51)

Black Death (1347-51)
- Great epidemic of bubonic plague that is mowed between one third and one half
the population of the then Europe (mortality of patients is about 75%)
- The infection was transmitted rat fleas, and epidemic had come from Central Asia, was first
observed in Constantinople and Italian cities, the spread favored poor
hygienic conditions, especially for the summer months
- Others are spared cities that have introduced quarantine, and some remote areas
- After the first wave 1347-51, epidemics have become periodic, however, mortality
decreased as a result of natural selection, only to those with strong immune systems survived and had
descendants
- Black Death a terrible hit economy and society, especially in France and
England, who are in the midst of the Hundred Years War, however, in some areas
labor shortages caused by an increase in wages and slightly better standard of peasants in
next generation