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.
The black death now called by doctors the bubonic plague, was caused by bacteria carried by fleas that would come off rats from foreign trade ships. When the flea bit a person â¦ the person would become infected. And infected people could also transmit the disease to other people who came near them.