Starting and Spreading

            The disease started out of no where. Some people say that a group of fisherman came to a town with the disease. They came into contact with the people and by then it was too late and some people already had the disease. Another way that the Black Death started was said to be that God was punishing them. Some people said that the fisherman got the disease as a punishment from God, which would mean that both theories were true. Personally, I think it was not a punishment because it is just their religion that came up with that and there is no fact in it. The only realistic thing that could happen, that they thought of, was the fisherman coming with the disease. It would make sence to belive that because new diseases pop up all the time back then, why would they think that this disease was any different just because it was a new sickness that they had never seen?

            The disease spread around Europe very rapidly. There was becoming no place to hide from the dreadful sickness. Since the weather was becoming unusually dry, the mice were coming out and roaming the streets. These weren’t just any mice, they were mice with fleas. Fleas commonly carry diseases from animal to human, so when the fleas on the mice came in contact with humans, they had their chance. The fleas would ride on the mice then jump to humans and give them the horrible sickness. Fleas multiply fast, so the disease was spreading very easily. It would be impossible to kill all of the fleas and get rid of all infected people before it spread even more, so they probably didn’t even try. They might not have known that it was the fleas that were giving them the disease, not fisherman or punishments from God. The people didn’t have the technology to see the fleas so they couldn’t stop something they couldn’t see.