What is a cardiac stress test using medicine? Medicine will be used to stress your heart instead of exercise. This medicine will increase your heart rate and/or open up (dilate) the heart arteries. This test may show evidence of blockages in the heart arteries when the heart is stressed. You can be scheduled for one of the following:
The Black Death or Black Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346â53.
1 It is estimated that somewhere between 75 million and 200 million people died of the plague. 2  Some scientists think it was a bacteria called Yersinia pestis that caused the disease. 3  The plague was not called the Black Death until many years later.