Even today, centuries later, the words "Black Death" can still send shivers through your body. The terrifying images, which play in your mind, where thousands and thousands of people suffering in agony and dying would have left most people in a state of general confusion and terror, the population knew once inflicted by the disease, which the result was almost certain death, this in itself was tremendously devastating. Scarier and even scarier than the plague was the fact that the population knew there was nowhere to turn for help; it must have been extremely demoralizing. The psychological trauma alone, seeing family, friends and neighbors get infected and die before your eyes, with no way to help them, without a doubt, the plague had enormous emotional and spiritual effects on the population. Just seeing the signs and symptoms of the plague, or death around you, must have stopped you with a reaction, or a sudden fear response. The bubonic plague was relentless; it had a rapid infection rate and was usually always fatal. The disease spread rapidly throughout the population, with those infected developing sudden fever, headache, chills and swollen and painful lymph nodes. The other symptoms were even more calloused and terrifying, these other diseases which were called buboes (or abscesses) which started in the lymph nodes in the groin or armpit area, once afflicted these areas slowly filled with pus, turning the body, a deadly black, hence the origin of the popular label “The Black Death”. Once the boils and associated fever appeared, death usually followed within two or three days. Europe, shaken by the enormous tragedy, was taken by surprise and was literally crushed... middle of paper... the plague, attacked the body and attached itself to the cells inside the body and spread. And they also showed in this particular city why these people were not affected by the plague, the residents of the city when they were infected with the plague, they showed that when the plague attached itself to their cells, these citizens were missing one cell in particular, so the virus wouldn't stick to the cell, it would just bounce off, so no infection. Today, experts say, if we were hit by another pandemic, the Hippocratic Oath would not exist and hospitals would be virtually ghost towns. Even a smaller natural disaster, like Katrina, which hit New Orleans, sent the state into utter chaos. As a society we should study these events, learn how to respond to these disasters, so when the next event occurs, perhaps we will be better suited on how to respond and manage them..