The Black Death had several distinguishing symptoms including swollen and painful lymph nodes called buboes that developed in the groin, neck, and armpit areas and oozed pus or bled when opened. It first appeared as tumours in the groin or armpits that ranged in size from a common apple and then spread from those areas, with some victims developing black spots or bruises on their arms or thighs as the disease progressed. The Black Death was caused by infection from the bacteria Yersinia pestis which was often transmitted via fleas that lived on infected black rats.

1. THE BLACK DEATH
By:Tessa Matthews

2. SYMPTOMS
The most best known symptom was
the appearance of buboes in the
groin, the neck and armpits, which
oozed pus and bled when opened. In
men and women alike it first betrayed
itself by the emergence of certain
tumours in the groin or armpits, some
of which grew as large as a common
apple. From the two said parts of the
body this deadly soon began to
propagate and spread itself in all
directions indifferently; after which the
form of the malady began to
change, black spots or livid making
their appearance in many cases on the
arm or the thigh.

3. CAUSES
 Black rats
 Fleas