Not surprisingly, many people believed that the horrors of the Black Death signaled the Apocalypse, or end of time. Others believed that the disease was a plot by Jews to poison all of the Christian world, and many Jews were killed by panicked mobs. The plague produces several different symptoms in its victims. The swellings are intensely painful, and the victims die in 2-6 days. The buboes are red at first, but later turn a dark purple, or black.
Pneumonic plague occurs when the infection enters the lungs, causing the victim to vomit blood.
In Septicemic plague the bacteria enters the person's bloodstream, causing death within a day. The speed with which the disease could kill was terrifying to inhabitants of the medieval world. The Black Death reaches England. The summer of 1348 was abnormally wet. Grain lay rotting in the fields due to the nearly constant rains.