Bubonic plague

This plague originated in July 541, where most of the people in Egypt died from a strange disease, this disease begins in the soft nodes and slowly travels through the people's neck, purple parts formed in people on their skin they were pale and their lip color was black. when someone infected others, some of them died immediately and some took days.

In October this plague spread until it reached Constantinople, around 300,000 people lived there, when the plague infected people, 10,000 of them died that day, doctors and nurses tried to prevent the loss of more people but they did not succeedWhen the plague ends the Byzantine empire it began to spread through more empires killing more than 200,000 people in the place, 250,000 people died from the plague, this problem was now a great pandemic, the pandemic affected the empires that were in the Mediterranean, the people who lived in those places began to build various structures, planted so that the empire would expand and the pandemic would stop, they did not know well when the pandemic approached, it would be the first pandemic remembered which they called "plague of justinian ".

What is bubonic plague?

is a bacterium called "yersinia pestis" this bacteria was the one that caused the plague, insects like fleas and lice were in the animals, mainly they were carried by rodents and other animals and when they got close to people the bacteria entered the bodies of people.

This plague affects the lymphatic system of people, this system is responsible for bringing blood to the organs, the blood carries white blood cells and they fight against infection, but this plague multiplies and this makes the body unable to fight against plague