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The Black Plague, if I remember right, was like this: First, in England, back in it's prime, the people were too stupid to think that it was a bad idea to throw dead, in-decomposition bodies to the nearby rivers that connected to their water channels, from which the common (poor) folk drank, and ocasionally the guards as well.

The dead bodies contaminated the water, and also infected it a bit with a virus. The water became the main initial infector of the Black Plague, making a lot of people sick, and worse.

Eventually, the rats got infected as well. Living in literal shit all the time, not much happened to them, but as they were fucking everywhere back then they then became the main source of infection. Just being close to them (very hard to not do) was enough to get infected. If I remember right, the BP even got to some of the nobility.

I don't remember the nationality of the doctor that found the cure (or at least the cause), but I know that was definitely not Asian. Either an American (Don't remember if technically-literally or not), or an European that maybe came from the colonies. Not an English person however, or at least wasn't present in England before/when it started. Not sure if he got help from someone else, but it's likely.

But basically, the Black Plague is just 1 and only. It just had a Diabolus Ex Machina thrown into it, leading to the extreme casualty and infection rates.