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He even remarked that he envied future posterity whom would not believe the horrors of the Black Death Laura Petrarch's beloved was one of the 25 50 of the people in Europe's population that died from it The Black Death is thought to have started its European infection in 1348 on the shores of Italy and occured in three different variations bubonic plague pneumonic plague and septicaemic plague There are some disagreements over whether only one form or all caused the epidemic in Europe but most historians believe it was a mix of the three since all derive from the same virus Yersinia pestis The bubonic plague receives its name from the swellings or buboes it causes to first form around the neck armpits and groin later they spread to anywhere on the body They typically range from the size of an egg to the size of an apple and life expectancy after this symptom was usually a week Other symptoms included vomiting and fever which in some cases caused the victim to suffer hysteria and crazy fear
