The actual term Expiration Date refers to the last date a food should be eaten or used. Last means last -- proceed at your own risk. Other, more commonly spotted terms are:  1 Sell by date. 2  The labeling sell by tells the store how long to display the product for sale. 3  You should buy the product before the date expires. 4  This is basically a guide for the retailer, so the store knows when to pull the item.
When an animal or person is infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacteria affect the lymph system, causing the characteristic symptoms. If bubonic plague is left untreated, plague bacteria can quickly multiply in the bloodstream, causing septicemic plague. The bacteria could also progress to the lungs, causing pneumonic plague.
The disease struck and killed people with terrible speed. ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise.. By the following August, the plague had spread as far north as England, where people called it The Black Death because of the black spots it produced on the skin. A terrible killer was loose across Europe, and Medieval medicine had nothing to combat it.