bacterium Biology Department

Plague Natural History

Plague Stories Flash
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One tiny plague bacterium
magnified 10 000 times
.

THE PLAGUE

THE PLAGUE, ALSO CALLED THE BLACK DEATH OR THE BUBONIC PLAGUE, SWEPT THROUGH EUROPE AND KILLED ONE THIRD OF THE POPULATION! 

WHAT WAS IT AND HOW DID IT KILL AND SPREAD SO RAPiDLY?

Danielle (age 13)


One rat Flea
There were billions.


Plague Stories from Europe

Flash Animation
of the spread of
the Second Bubonic Plague

 

Plague Biologists of Europe