Black Death survivors.

by Bods666

Is there any accounts of survivors of the 1347 bubonic plague (or any) outbreak? i.e. people who contracted the disease, broke into frank symptoms and recovered. What I am interested in is the duration of their convalescence, any lingering disfigurement/infirmity and how they were treated in their societies. I am aware of the genetic resistance factors to the disease.

y_sengaku

As /u/J-Force and I answered briefly before in Did any people who contracted the Plague (in the 14th century) recover, the contemporary texts on the Black Death seldom mention such a case, so some scholars instead choose to rely on the calculation of the change of average life expectancy.

On the other hand, the first world-wide pandemic of Y. Pestis, the plague of Justinian in the 6th century, has some examples of the account of the survivor, among others, Emperor Justinian himself.