BLACK DEATH

The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history,
peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is widely thought to have
been an outbreak of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia
pestis, but this view has recently been challenged. Usually thought to
have started in Central Asia, it had reached the Crimea by 1346 and
from there, probably carried by fleas residing on the black rats that
were regular passengers on merchant ships, it spread throughout the
Mediterranean and Europe. The Black Death is estimated to have killed
30% to 60% of Europe's population, reducing the world's population
from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400.
This has been seen as creating a series of religious, social and
economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of
European history. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover.
The plague returned at various times, resulting in a larger number of
deaths, until it left Europe in the 19th century.

The Black Death is categorized into three specific types of plague:

bubonic plague (infection in the lymph nodes, or [hence] buboes),
pneumonic plague (the infection in the lungs), and septicemic plague
(the infection in the blood and the most deadly of the three).

The bubonic plague was the most commonly seen form during the
Black Death, with a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent and
symptoms including fever of 38–41 °C (101–105 °F), headaches,
painful aching joints, nausea and vomiting, and a general feeling of
malaise. Of those who contracted the bubonic plague, 4 out of 5 died
within eight days.

Germans blamed Jews for the plague. So the Jews were burned alive.