Part one of term paper
Plague, was a term that was used in the Middle Ages to describe all fatal epidemic diseases, but now it is only applied to an infectious, contagious disease of rodents and humans. In humans, plague occurs in three forms: , pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague. The best known form is the and it is named after buboes, or enlarged, inflamed ...

Part two of term paper
... Mortality in treated cases is only five to ten percent. The origin of the is unknown but it may have started in Africa or India. Colonies of infected rats were established in Northern India, many years ago. Some of these rodents had infected traders on the route between the Middle East and China. After 1330 the plague had invaded China. From China it was transferred westward by traders and Mongol armies in the 14th century. While these traders were travelling westward they followed a more norther ...