Bubonic plague

In the town of Chichester, a physician that was blessed with dubious luck made his fortune on the remnants of the plague. To Gifre, the Bubonic Plague was not damnation, but blessing. The plague had claimed the lives of the majority of the villagers and townsmen of Chichester. Peculiarly, Gifre seemed to be protected from the pest and was able to maintain his health. His abnormal luck of immunity popularized him as the best physician in Chichester. From distant towns people would come to visit…

The Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague had one of the highest death rates in the world because it killed over 25 million people. In the Holocaust, 11 million people died; that is half the amount of people that died in the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague was a disease that was caused by fleas on rats.The Bubonic Plague originated from the far East (China). It started in 1348 and ended in 1351, during this time both humans and animals got the disease. The Bubonic Plague was so devastating to…

Bubonic Plague Still Kills Thousands Summary and Analysis The Bubonic Plague was once a disease that killed half of Europe population. Although it has been a long time since the disease affected Europe, researchers say that the disease is still in parts of the world. In Congo more than 10,000 people have gotten the disease throughout the last decade. Cases of the Bubonic Plague are slowly coming into the westward United States. The bacteria yersinia pestis started the Bubonic Plague and…

Annotation 10: 1347 C.E. Bubonic Plague and Its Political Effects (Theme 1) The bubonic plague is also known as the Black Death. It is infamous for killing many millions of people in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Europe. It wiped out a third of the population in Europe in just three years and is believed to have originated from China. Although it was spread through fleas that carried the disease passed onto them by rats, many believed it was a punishment from God for their sins,…

1. What were some of the factors that caused the Bubonic Plague to spread so widely in the Late Middle Ages? What was the impact of the plague on Europe (either social, economic or political impact)? Some of the factors that caused the Bubonic Plague to spread so widely in the Late Middle Ages were the rats that were carried in the ships during trades. The Europeans did trading in Central Asia, and during this period the rats which carried the disease would get on the ships and once these…

The black death was one of the most devastating plagues in human history. It was caused by the bubonic plague and its variants,. In the 14th century something happened that caused the disease spread . It was likely the rise of trade. The disease lived in fleas carried by rats. When a rat died, the fleas on that rat would need to find another host. When that host was a human, the people would get very sick and most people who had the disease would die very quickly. It is assumed that the…

The Bubonic Plague can be known as different things it is often referred to as the Black Death. Furthermore, this name is caused by the infestations of rats upon Middle Aged Europe. These rats carried disease ridden fleas that preyed on humans as their next host…

The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, caused by a bacteria called Yersinia Pestis, ravaged the population of Europe in the middle ages. “Localized epidemics of bubonic plague occurred with relative frequency, but only twice did the plague affect a wide enough swath of the population to be labeled a pandemic, or widespread epidemic” (The Black Death Arrives). When it did, over half the population of Europe died from exposure to the plague. Europe was densely populated and living…

destructive plague. Once the Black Death entered Europe it quickly spread to most European countries. No one who caught the disease survived, even though, now a days the Black Death has a 11% mortality rate in the United States when untreated, and is highly contagious. In fact most Europeans didn't view it as a…

The Bubonic plague is caused by a bacterium yersinia pestis that is found on the fleas of rats. The disease spread to Europe from the Far East in the 14th century along the trade routes of the silk road. The East was experiencing a great boom in trade and economics under the Mongolian Empire that Genghis Khan had built. The Silk Road saw much more use do to the Mongol conquests and the subsequent Pax Mongolica. This intracontinental trade resulted in the people of Italy seeing their first…