The Black Death came from the ports of China. Colonies like the Himalayan, Africa and the borderlands between India and China had contagion when bacillus appears to have been a permanent feature of rodent(Volti). Switzerland's last suffering from the epidemic of plague in 1667-68 along with several other towns in canton of Zurich(Kohn). The Bubonic Plague killed about 3,600 people out of 6,000 who got it in Basel, or Basle, Switzerland in 1610 and 1611(Kohn). The morbidity and death rates were high in Basel for 15 long months(Kohn). During the 14th-17th Centuries the Bubonic Plague spread through Europe and North Africa. The disease also caused people to lose their homes and even their own family (Hazlett). People started to flee from their hometowns in hope that they didn't get the …show more content…
It was claimed that there were 6,408 people infected and another 3,968 fatalities during the epidemic(Kohn). Some think that some of the deaths were caused by something else but since the plague was known they just blamed it on that since it was spreading around(Kohn). It was believed that the plague was a punishment from God. It was said that if you lose faith in Christianity and expressed vain skepticism at inherited truths by violating widely held religious norms, sometimes by engaging in sexual acts upon consecrated graveyards(Hazlett). The religious groups were blaming each other for the Black Death(Hazlett). It was said that God’s anger came as a result of the divisiveness that existed within Christian Europe. Also that that the plague was the punishment for the Christians not pursuing the Crusades to the utmost, destroying the Muslims, and evicting them from the Holy Land. The summer was the worse because that was when the fleas would breed and the mortality was very high(Hazlett). Lacking of the effective defenses towards the plague succumbed to mass hysteria(Volti). The population had little to no build up because of the plague(Volti). The mortality rate was up to 50% in a lot many areas(Hazlett). The mortality rate had stunned the population and sent