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, plague: The black death: In Europe the Black Plague was raging from 1348 until 1350. During that time it killed not thousands but millions of people. Just in Europe 25 million people died because of the plague, which is one-third of Europeâs population at that time. World wide it is supposed that the plague has killed over 75 million people. It took the world over 150 years to recuperate from the Black Death.