AIDS and 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 Epidemiology and the Medical problems") David Herlihy compares the historical bubonic plague with the current AIDS epidemic of today. According to his research, AIDS will probably prove to be the plague of the millennium. …