Generally, a person may be punished for sedition only when he or she makes statements that create a Clear and Present Danger to rights that the government may lawfully protect (schenck v. united states, 249 U.S. 47, 39 S. Ct. 247, 63 L. Ed. 470 [1919]).
The epidemic reached its zenith in the years 1348 to 1350, though the disease never vanished entirely. It is widely believed that the cause of the Black Death was bubonic plague, an infectious and fatal illness spread by rodents and the fleas infesting them.
Between 1347 and 1350, a mysterious disease known as the Black Death (the bubonic plague) killed some 20 million people in Europeâ30 percent of the continentâs population. It was especially deadly in cities, where it was impossible to prevent the transmission of the disease from one person to another.