Diseases+in+the+14+and+15+hundreds

It started in the 14th and 15th century when the biggest epidemic happened. The Black Death. Its real name is bubonic plague. In the 1300s it killed almost a third of all the europeans. That is 34,000,000 people. The world total was 100,000,000 people; almost 1 fifth of the world. There was also malaria which killed hundreds of people a day. Typhoid fever was also a storming disease. The only problem was there was no cures. People were dying left and right.

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