The plague.

"The bubonic plague is an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality; a contagious disease that is caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and that occurs in bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic forms. It is also a cause of irritation, or a sudden unwelcome outbreak." Millions of people and their families have had a close encounter with this Black Death with nothing good to come from it. The nasty disease comes right in and takes …showed first 75 words of 2169 total…

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