Effects Of The Bubonic Plague

The Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as the Black Death was the notorious flea-spread bacterial disease. It wiped out over one-third of Europe's population - a colossal 50 million deaths in the four agonising years from 1348 to 1351. The Black Death was believed to have arisen in China but it traveled to Europe through trade on boats. And when the plague struck Europe, it rapidly spread and started taking its horrible toll among the empires. Many glanced at these casualties as the sole and only consequence, but on the other hand, there were plentiful amounts of social, political and economics impacts that sprouted from the Black Death. Because of this terrifying disease society was susceptible to change; and it did, in ways such as improved hygiene and medical services, it also created the dilemma of labour shortages, and it also

The Black Death impacted medieval Europe's society in the field of improved hygiene and medical services. Towards the end of this plague, people learned to try and cope with it. And although they didn't understand its causes, they gradually became more sanitary and organised. By the fifteenth century, towns were beginning to establish health teams who could share knowledge and quarantine people who were infected. They also developed health regulations that began to create more hygienic environments for people. Statistics suggested that the Black Death killed up to 50% of Europe’s total population, but this proved a major milestone in the development of modern public health. In “A History of Public Health,” by George Rosen, he explains how this pandemic in Europe triggered the creation of various fundamental public health practices. A passage from this account states, “[S]tirred by the Black