Reading Space · Bilingual Themed Reading The Black Death (The Black Death)

Author: U.S. Kosbostone Publishing Company
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The patient's body is covered with strange black bumps (inguinal gland abscesses), which are the size of eggs and occasionally bleed and ooze pus. Symptoms include fever, boils, and black spots appearing on the skin. After suffering from the disease for four or five days, the patient will die painfully. The bacteria of the plague can survive for a very long time—even in dried blood sputum particles, it can remain viable for more than five and a half months. Therefore, clothing, fur, grain, and leather that were once stored in plague-infected warehouses are like time bombs, ready to explode at any moment. After the plague spread around the world and returned to Kaffa, it eventually vanished near Kyiv in Russia. During the long years of its rampant destruction, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East lost nearly half of their population. There is more exciting content.