sappear, but only because fleas, which were now helping to carry it from person to person, were soon dormanting then. Each spring, the plague attacked again, killing new victims. After five years twenty-five million people were dead one-third of European people (Encarta).Even when the worst was over smaller outbreaks continued, not just for years, but for centuries. The survivors lived in constant fear of the plague's return, and the disease did not disappear until the 1600s (Campbell 44).Medieval society never recovered from the result of the plague. So many people had died, which led to serious labor shortages all over Europe. This led workers to demand higher wages, but landlords refused those demands (Campbell 45). By then end of the 1300s peasants revolts broke out in England, France, Belgium and Italy, thus showing that economics control history. The disease took its toll on the church as well. People throughout Christendom had prayed devoutly for deliverance from the plague. The term plague was then used for a disease that was widespread. They could classify the Black Death under pandemic of a disease called plague.This plague was an infectious fever caused by a bacillus with scientific name Pasteurella pestis (Shrewsbury 15). A Japanese and a Swiss scientist in 1884 discovered the microbe almost at the same time.The plague is primarily a disease of wild rodents, most notably by the black rat. This rodent made its original home in the Far East. It spread slowly throughout Europe during the early centuries of the Christian era. By the fourteenth century they had not yet displaced the black rat. It was this plague-bearing black rat that infested the cities and countryside of Europe, north and south. The plague kills rats even more quickly then it kills a man. Large-scale death of rats have been associated with many historical plagues. But the bacillus does not pass directly from rat to rat or from rat to man. There ...
