Andrew Westbrook 28577 D'stoli Essay #2 2/28/2003 AIDS & the Bubonic Plague The destruction and devastation caused by the "Black Death" of the Middle Ages was a phenomenon left to wonder at in textbooks of historical Europe. An unstoppable plague swept the continent taking as much as eighty percent of the European population. However, today the world is plagued with a similar deadly disease. The AIDS epidemic continues to be incurable. In his essay (entitled "Bubonic Plague: Historical …showed first 75 words of 631 total…

…showed last 75 words of 631 total…a reliable guide, this epidemic too will run its vicious course, spreading acute misery. Then it will take place in the back round of the ecosystem, alongside with organisms that cause influenza, syphilis, measles and a host of other infections." In conclusion, similar characteristics of the bubonic plague and the HIV virus threaten AIDS to be the most dangerous and devastating plague of the millennium, just as the plague was destructive to the Middle Ages.