Does Ebola seem like it could have been the Bubonic Plague?

Question

I heard from my teacher that the Bubonic Plague has next to NO written records of information of what people infected looked like when they died. However, it is said that the things that people EXPERIENCED when disposing of the bodies during the plague said that the bodies were hollow-ish. This is the same as Ebola (in a nutshell). Apparently, the "plague" started in a house of merchants who imported things from AFRICA (The continent where outbreaks during the 80s/90s) and soon people would come to see the sick family and the disease spread that way.
That's how I was told by my teacher anyway... Also, the Bubonic Plague was spread by rats, but places INFESTED with rats in the Middle Ages, some would not have any trace of the plague. With the given information that I have summarized for you from my teacher, does the Black Plague sound like it was just a previous outbreak of Ebola?

I'm curious to hear some responses.

No, no, no. As some have already answered, I'd like to clarify my question: Do you think the Bubonic Plague that wiped out half of Europe could have been Ebola, and NOT the Bubonic Plague?

Answer 1

The cause of Ebola and Bubonic plague are completely different. The organism that causes ebola could not cause bubonic plague, and vice versa, because one is a virus and the other one is a bacillus. I shall explain - the causative organism of the bubonic plague – known as The Black Death - is the bacillus Pasteurella pestis (now called Yersinia pestis; renamed after French bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin, who independently discovered the plague bacillus during the Hong Kong epidemic). The ebola haemorrhagic fever is a 20 year old virus that, with a mortality rate of 50% to 90%, is one of the world's deadliest viruses. Its causative organism is called Ebola virus. Ebola virus is a member of filoviridae, a family of negative-strained RNA viruses. The filoviridae family consists of five known members, Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Reston, and EbolaTai.

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Answer 2

The plague is a bacterial disease while Ebola is a viral disease, so no, they are completely different diseases.

In addition, the bubonic plague was not spread by rats; it was spread by fleas - the fleas were the vectors and rats the reservoirs.

Answer 3

the organism that causes bubonic plague is known and identified, as is the virus that causes Ebola, they are NOT the same thing.