The Plague struck Europe in a series of waves beginning from the mid-1400s. During that time‚ people didn’t know the filth they lived in and the unsanitized streets caused the spread of the plague. It is estimated that the first wave killed 25 million people‚ which is about one third of the population of Western Europe. Sporadic but deadly outbreaks continued throughout Europe into the eighteenth century. The plague didn’t regard any status‚ age or even gender. During Plague there were also many
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and Muslim responses to the plague were different. The Muslims thought it was a blessing from God while Christians thought it was a bad sign from God. The plague was caused by fleas on rats. So many believed that the plague was the end of the world. Civilizations in the East and West were affected by the plague. To explain that the plague was caused fleas on rats is that the fleas carried the disease that infected rats‚ and then the rats infected the humans. The plague spread through trade routes
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diseasesRESPIRATORY DISEASES CONOR BREMNER TYPES OF RESPIRATORY DISEASES * Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome * Tuberculosis * Scarlet Fever * Q Fever * Pneumonic Plague * Pertussis * Paragonimiasis * Mucormycosis * Lassa Fever * Legionaires’disease Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS Virus) Causes The SARS Virus is airborne and can be propelled 90 cm‚ it can also be deposited on surfaces. It was first reported in Southern China in November 2002
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Have you ever heard of the Black Death? A lot people are familiar with the horrible plague that spread across Europe from early 1348 to late 1349. However‚ most do not know just how big of an effect it had on the nation of Europe. Over time‚ the disease caused famine‚ mass death in highly populated areas‚ and even led to rebellion and uprising from poor people‚ or “peasants”. The disease ravaged the continent of Europe for around two years‚ yet it left tens of thousands of casualties in its wake
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Black Death packet 1. The story that was told was that rat got on a ship in the Italian port of Messina. The rat carried a flea that breads the plague inside of it and from there it spread to all of Europe. 2. The author believes that fleas carried bacteria called Xenopsylla Cheopis. 3. Greek word for groin. 4. The population was fearful because it could kill somebody overnight. 5. Ring around the Rosy could relate to the Black Death because the ring showed an early sign that a blotch was
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called Black Plague because most scholars believe struck Europe was ̈Plague ̈. The plague took pneumonic and septicemic forms. The black death was an epidemic of bubonic plague‚ a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents where they live in great numbers and density. The black death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Blackdeath was around from 1346-1353. The cause of Black death was fleas who lived on plague-infected and
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14th to the 18th century” (Hallen‚ 254). The Black Death was such a catastrophic outbreak because the black death claimed over 75 million lives. A person could not even go near the sick or touch their clothes because if they did they would catch the plague (The Black death‚ 1348). The Black Death first arrived in Europe by sea and the sailors aboard were mostly dead by the time they reached the dock (Black Death). When the black death arrived in October 1347 there were 12 Genoese trading ships docked
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had met their demise. (Black Death) It was 1347 and a calamity was brought to the Italians. Not only was disease coming‚ but surrounding natives were attacking the Italians‚ whom they believed started the plague‚ by catapulting the bodies of the dead soldiers struck by the highly contagious plague into the Italian’s fortress in hopes to infect the Italians. (Cross Giblin‚ 12-13) Though
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used in biological warfare. The best known symptom of bubonic plague infected‚ enlarged‚ and painful lymph nodes‚ known as buboes. After being transmitted via the bite of infected fleas‚ the Y. pestis bacteria localize in an inflamed lymph node where they start to colonize and reproduce. Buboes associated with the bubonic plague are found in the armpits‚ upper femoral‚ groin and neck region. Acral gangrene (“Bubonic Plague”). The best known cause is when rats and fleas
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His war distraction did not save him nor his family from being affected by the Black Death though‚ for his daughter Joan was killed by the plague on September 2‚ 1348 (Hennelore Caulk Scheu‚ Joan Plantagenet). When the infection began to spread‚ a trend in symptoms was noticed. the first part was a nosebleed‚ which many saw as the first warning. As the Black Death progressed‚ tumors began to
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