Bubonic plague

Most people have heard of the Black Death, but not many of them know all of the facts about it. The Black Death was a plague that killed an estimated 25-50 million people in a short time period of about five years in the fourteenth century. In this time period, 1346 AD - 1353 AD, about 33% - 50% of Europe’s population was killed by this horrible disease. If you think about this horrible number, you will be able to realize how important the Black Death was in human history. Now, some people would…

History The plague was one of the most devastating widespreads in human history. It originated in China over 2,600 years ago and spread towards Western Europe along the silk road in October of 1347. The silk road was an international trade route between the Mediterranean and China. This was not an actual road, it was an interconnecting group of routes that ran across Central Asia. Although this route was very useful back then, it also had some negative effects to it, “the black death.” While…

Ring Around the Rosie. What I Know The black plague started in mid evil times, better know as the dark ages. It was the deadliest plague to ever be documented in the history of the world. It was also the most widespread plague in the world, killing…

coccobacillus and a facultative anaerobe. Infamous for being the causative agent in plague, has been implicated in at least three devastating pandemics in modern history. The second plague pandemic includes the Black Death epidemic which caused the deaths of a third of the estimated European population in the fourteenth century (Haensch et al, 2010). More than five hundred years after the Black Death, during the third plague pandemic, Y. pestis was finally discovered and isolated by Alexandre…

to Mediterranean ports, this defied territorial right between living and death among every-one (Jueneman 11). Yersinia Pestis also known as “Black Death” in the Middle Ages the Black Death ruined and destroyed many lives. Although before the Black Plague the European popula-tion increased. Additional…

The disease would usually start with one person and then spread quickly and many would be killed. The deadliest and most common diseases in ancient Greece were bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, typhoid, influenza, typhus, just to name a few. Bubonic Plague, more commonly known as the black plague, was the deadliest outbreak in ancient history. The black plague’s first outbreak in 541 AD killed twenty-five million people. Smallpox killed thirty percent of the citizens…

There are plagues that can occur today, they go under the name of pneumonic, septicemic and bubonic. Pneumonic plague is contagious and spreads person to person, although the last time a person a caught the plague by another human was in 1924. The main area that is affected with this plague is the lungs. It is caused when the bacterium, yersinia pestis spreads around the lungs. The symptoms include; coughing, pains within your chest, having a fever, vomiting, nausea, feeling cold (chills),…

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia Pestis, usually carried by rodents and other small animals. It is a vector borne disease in humans, which means it is caused by bites from a flea that is infected with the disease, direct contact, inhalation, or ingestion of infected materials. There are three types of plague depending on the route of infection: bubonic, septicaemic, and pneumonic. There have been three major epidemics of plague throughout history. There have been…

dark age, mainly because of the Bubonic Plague, the Crusades, and their Government. The main reason Europe was in a dark age was because of the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague was detrimental to Europe, because many people suffered from death and depression. If the plague doctor came to your house it meant that you had the plague. They would check if you had the purple/black boils and if you were throwing up blood. They would also try several methods to heal the plague such as blood leaking.…

septicemic, pneumonic, and bubonic. Septicemic plague occurred when the bacteria multiplied in the blood killing the host in a matter of days because it showed the least amount of symptoms. Pneumonic plague was the most serious form where the bacteria would infect the lungs causing chest pains and trouble breathing. These two plagues were the most deadly because the bacteria had infected the inside of the body. Bubonic plague…