...They simply renamed Leprosy into The Black Plague.
Later, as the Vatican’s power of definition was reduced by national revolutions, French Revolution, American Revolution, the same concept was renamed into SmallPox, but the same principle remained.
Today, it is carried on in unacceptable disease definitions such as AIDS.
At any rate, the public was terrified to no ends, whenever epidemics were declared, for this meant they could be put into quarantine, they could be killed, they could be forced to take medications... --- Read More Here