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 Plague, also known as the Black Death, resulted in the  deaths of between 75 to 200-million people in Europe in between  1346 and 1353. The Black Death is thought â¦ to have originated in the  plains of central Asia, then traveled along the Silk Road to  Crimea.