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From 1347--1352, Black Death claimed ____ lives in Europe, almost one-third of the continent's population.

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Black Death is thought to have 1 in Asia over 2000 years ago, but recent research has 2 that the pathogen for this disease may have existed in Europe 5000 years ago.

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The symptoms of the plague include: 1 on the groin or under the armpits wih blood and pus seeping out, fever, chills, 2, 3, aches and pains.

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The Black Death spread quickly because it was highly 1.

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Now we understand that the 1 is spread by a bacillus from person to person through the air, or fleas and rats. But in Medieval Europe, there seemed to be no 2 explanation for it. A doctor even believed that people were 3 because they got struck by the 4 spirit from the eyes of the sick.

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Some crude and unsophisticated techniques were adopted to treat the disease, like 1, boil-lancing, and some other 2 practices like burning aromatic herbs or bathing in rosewater or vinegar.

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People at that time believed the Black Death was a kind of 1 punishment. So their hoped to fight against the disease by winning God's 2, like eliminating heretics--the Jews.

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The most extreme people turned into flagellants. They 1 self-punishment in public: beating themselves and one another with 2 straps studded with metal.

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The plauge never really 1. But when it struck again years later, people slowed it down by creating social 2 that releid on isolation----the origin of the term "3".

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