Plagues and pandemics. Kate Messner. 2021.

The Black Death of the fourteenth century wouldn’t have been as deadly if people had just shut their windows! Right?

Wrong! Despite what people thought at the tie, a closed window won’t do anything against bubonic plague.

The truth is, the plague wasn’t caused by breathing in”bad air”. It was transmitted by infected fleas biting (and, in the process, throwing up into) people. No joke.

Learn the whole truth about the Black Death, King Cholera, smallpox, COVID-19 and more in the nonfiction series that smashes everything you thought you knew about history.