pestis causes three varieties of plague: bubonic plague, caused by bites from infected fleas, in which the bacteria moves to lymph nodes and quickly multiplies, forming growths, or buboes; pneumonic plague, a lung infection that causes its victim to cough blood and spread the bacteria from person to person; and septic emic plague, a blood infection that is almost always fatal. • Nearly no one thought the omnipresent rodents and fleas could be responsible. • The efforts to find treatments for the pestilence started the momentum toward development of the scientific method and the changes in thinking that led to the Renaissance • Plague continues to survive in the modern world, with Y. pestis foci in Asia, Russia, the American Southwest.(“41 Interesting Facts”.) The Black Death or Bubonic Plague completely devastated millions of human lives during the two horrendous years it was prevalent in England. Roughly 50% of England’s population was eradicated due to the septicity.…
Clearly people thought the plague was started and spread in completely different ways. Another way people thought the disease was spread was in our class notes were they found out that sick people give the disease to healthy people and…
The bubonic plague is very devestating. In document 1 it states the the plague spread by rodents and fleas. The plague also spread by trade routes. This plague kept spreading and spreading killing multiple people.…
People started to assume rats carried and passed the sickness on to others. The rats actually carried fleas and if a person was bit they’d catch the plague. Looking at the nap on Document A the plague crossed water and came onto land showing the plague had to be contagious because rats don’t swim in big bodies of oceans. They weren’t as sanitized and clean as we are modern day, they didn’t know about germs and what could happen if you cough on someone , so I’d say looking at the map it spread through those traveling on water and trade.…
People in the 14th century’s understanding of the plague was inaccurate because their reasoning for how the plague originated from and how to cure themselves from the plague were wrong. In document A, it states that the plague originated from “the constellations which combated the rays of the sun that exerted their power especially against the sea and the waters of the ocean arose in the form of vapor. The waters were in some parts so corrupted that the fish died. Causing the vapor to spread through the air in many places of the earth”. The corrupted sea wind that blows through islands are the “causes” of the plague.…
People back then lacked general hygiene, which is understandable since, there was no indoor pluming at the time. The plague was caused by rats who carried fleas, but I think people caused the spread, not the rats with fleas. People carried the plague through trade routes, unknowingly. People could of just kept to themselves during this time, stay away from open wounds, clothes were also infected as well as, towns. If towns were contaminated, no one should be able to leave, just incase if they do have the disease, they don't spread it.…
Plague caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis. When it enters to fleas body,it lives in digestive system and multiply in flea. when flea bite to animal or human, then they will infected. These infected fleas lived on rats. Vicious cycle was kept going like infected fleas would bite a rat then rats became infected.…
The black rats like to live close to humans because of how much food and shelter they get from humans, the only quality which make them incredibly dangerous to beings. Although, the majority think that the rats bring this disease, they don’t. The fleas on the rats were the ones that first infect the rats with the bacterium Yersinia Pestis. The bacterium circulates among areas where rodents live in great numbers known as “plague focus” or “plague reservoir” (Gale). Before finding new human hosts for the fleas to infect, they take ten to fourteen days to kill off and contaminate most of the rat colony.…
The Middle Ages was a time of trouble for the Europeans. The Black Death was one of those problems. The Black death eventually had killed off half of the population. The Black Death had spread through the Middle East and Asia and ended up in Europe. No matter what social class people were from, everyone was affected.…
“Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another, for the plague seemed to strike through breath and sight. And so they died. And no one could be found to bury the dead, for money or friendship.” This was how Agnolo di Tura described the plague in 1350. Citizens of European towns felt they could not even trust their own family, afraid that the plague would catch simply through being near each other.…
The government believed them and tried to prevent the plague by killing all the dogs in the town. Dogs were banned from towns and dog-killers were appointed to round up strays. Other doctors blamed dirty air-huge bonfires were lit in the hope that they would purify it. No one understood that the real enemy was the rats,…
People were never able to feel safe during this devastating time period. The plague can be transmitted by contaminated food or water, dust or liquid droplets in the air, direct physical contact, or through the bite of infected fleas and rats. These pests were very common in medieval Europe but they were even more popular aboard ships. This is how the disease made its way through one European city to another.…
Currently, it is known that the plague is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis as seen to the right, that infects small rodents…
Black Death There were not enough living to bury the dead, and those rodents that were alive were the same who roamed the streets, carrying the fleas that had the disease. In Western Europe around 1339, Europe’s population had began to outgrow the food supply, and a major economic crisis had started to take place. It was very cold during the winter, and very dry during the summer, and due to the weather circumstances there was very low food supplies, lacking production of crops, and the crops that did grow were dying. For some reason God had punished Europe with seven bad years of weather and famine which lead to the greatest plague of all time. This plague was known as the “Bubonic Plague”, an epidemic that was soon to be spread from Asia…
The Black Plague’s Influence on the Fine Arts. The Black Plague was a catastrophe that shook humanity to its core. This disease was one of the most impactful epidemics in human history wiping out approximately one third of Europe’s population between 1347-1350 (Johnston 566). The Black Plague, or known by as its medical name, the Bubonic Plague, was a deadly disease tied to poor sanitation, and was extremely contagious.…