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//Yersinia Pestis//; The bacterium, carried and spread by fleas, is the cause of the various forms or the disease plague.

__**Why was it called the Black Death?**__ Many think that the Black Death got its name from the blackened tumors that covered the victims' bodies. But it's more likely a mistranslation of the Latin term for the plague, Atra mors. 'Atra' can be translated as either 'terrible' or 'black.' People living through the Black Death did not call it by that name. What they called it translates roughly to the 'Great Mortality' or the 'Big Death.' People began using the phrase 'Black Death' in the eighteenth century, to distinguish between the deaths of 1347-1351 and the plague that struck London in 1665. You can find this and other information here.