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What is the Black Plague?

What caused the plague?
How many people died from the plague?
How did the amount of deaths affect society in the middle ages?

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Answer: The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents where they live in great numbers and density. ... Plague among humans arises when rodents in human habitation, normally black rats, become infected.

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