The black death changed the world by decreasing agricultural production and causing food shortages, hunger, malnutrition, and weakened immune systems.
The black plague did affect Africa as the black plague affected North Africa, Europe and Asia killing around 50 percent of the population.
There were a few people that survived the plague although the majority of people who got the plague died of it because there was not as good as medical treatment or medicines available like there are today.
The black plague spread so fast because of the fact that rats often coexisted with humans, thus allowing the disease to spread so quickly.
And the fact that no medicines or vaccines were available at the time to stop the disease and prevent further spreading.
There are 3 types of plague which are the bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic plague.
During the plague printed crosses were put on the doors although in the early days they also painted crosses on the doors of those with the black plague.
The two long term effects of the Black Death on European society were the cessation of wars and a sudden slump in trade which was immediately followed but were only of short duration.
And a more lasting and serious consequence was the drastic reduction of the amount of land under cultivation, due to the deaths of so many laborers.
This also proved to be the ruin of many landowners.
Doctors treated the black death or the black plague through creams, herbs, roots, flowers and the doctors also practiced bloodletting and other remedies such as putting frogs or leeches on the buboes to "rebalance the humors
The Black Death in Europe was stopped through implementation of quarantine and the black plague pandemic eased with better sanitation, hygiene, and medical advancements but never completely disappeared.
The black plague lasted for 4 years in Europe which occurred from the years 1347 to 1351.
However the black plague was around even before that major pandemic.
Humans get the plague through direct contact with infected animals or fleas. In the U.S., people can contract the plague when disposing of squirrels or mice that died from the infection or traveled to an area where infected animals live.
Human-to-human transmission is extremely rare.
A new study suggests that people who survived the medieval mass-killing plague known as the Black Death lived significantly longer and were healthier than people who lived before the epidemic struck in 1347.
The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s.
The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina.
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353.
It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
The Bubonic plague is a type of infection caused by the Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis) bacterium which is spread mostly by fleas on rodents and other animals.
Humans who are bitten by the fleas then can come down with plague.
The most popular theory of how the plague ended is through the implementation of quarantines.
The uninfected would typically remain in their homes and only leave when it was necessary, while those who could afford to do so would leave the more densely populated areas and live in greater isolation.
The plague is extremely rare.
Only a couple thousand cases are reported worldwide each year, most of which are in Africa, India, and Peru.
The plague killed an estimated 25 million people, almost a third of the continent's population.
The Black Death lingered on for centuries, particularly in cities.
Outbreaks included the Great Plague of London (1665-66), in which 70,000 residents died.