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 was a plague the spread across medieval Europe in 590CE to 1500CE. It was an infection caused by rats and then spread by fleas. The rats were carrying a lot of germs and bacteria at the time so a flea would bite the rat and then would and bite a person.