All these people in the medieval times lived all over, and each place you lived there was a different disease. Those living close to marshy land and bad, nasty water could easily get malaria. Country people faced health hazards all the time like rats, birds and other creatures that dropped right into their food from the roof. Also back then, most people didn’t really have indoor toilets so they had outdoor ones which led to killer diseases including typhus, cholera, and dysentery. Lastly, poor diet and coarse clothing causes skin related diseases like scurvy, scabies, and scrofula.
All of these diseases including small pox, measles, leprosy, scarlet fever and many more killed thousands of people. This cause affected that Eras feudalism structure to crumble because of the huge loss in population.
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