Black Plague

I intend to explore the topic of the black plague also know as the bubonic plague. I want to research how it got started,where it started, what caused it, how did the people get it,how did it spread, the symptoms of it, how fast it killed you, and how many people died from it.Also research to see if Geoffrey Chaucer or William Shakespear came into contact with it in their life time and if so what did they see? I first learned about the black plague from Ann Rice movie Interview with the Vampire. In the moive they talk about it and louis one of the vampires stumbles across a little girl holding her mothers hand in a rocking chair that died from it.Her mother is almost a blackish color and has wounds all over her body. I aslo learned a little more about it from in my Health Care class at the technical high school; We were studying deadly diseases and illnesses. It interested me alot to think that such a disease could kill so many people in such a short time. That almost a whole country could be wiped out by it. People in modern time need to know about this because of what the damage was done by the plague. They need to know how many people were killed by it and how excrutiating the pain was from it. They need to know they symptoms of the plague and what caused it. Also they need to know if somehow you could still get it. There are people all the time trying to create diseases to use for biological   warfare on countries. Imagine if they used the black plague it could be possible that almost the entire population of the whole world could be wiped out from it. People need to understand that technology advances every day and so does sience and that it is   possible that it could happen. They need to know how to try to protect themselves from it if any way possible and what signs to look for if someone is becoming ill with it so they can stay far away as posssible from them in order not to catch it. The black plague would be a very nasty disease to use to bilogical...