Pandemic

Most people have heard of the devastating dark ages event, the Black Death. This breakout caused the largest biochemical disaster known to mankind. The bacteria that caused the black plague is known as Yersinia pestis, and continues to exist even today. At the time when the original plague broke out, lack of medicine, and other sanitary needs greatly affected how quickly the plague was able to spread. Although the overall period of time is mostly considered to be the breakout of one common…

towns are full of the smell of burnt flesh and death, the dead are being burned on the outskirts of town. The event leading to this started in 1347, with a genoese trading ship entering the port city of Messina bringing with it the most catastrophic pandemic in European history, the "Black Death". How it started, the effects, the disease, how it works, and the Black Death in modern times are all thing you will learn about Europe's most destructive plague. Once the Black Death entered Europe it…

The Black Death was a pandemic that spread all throughout the world taking the lives of innocent people. We could have never predicted the effect it would have on our countries and villages. We could have never imagined that our family members would suffer so much, or how we were silently praying that the next victim wouldn’t be us. I still remember when the rumors started. No one knew what was killing their loved ones ,or how to treat it because they had never experienced something like this…

There is at least 93 confirmed pandemics and epidemics from the 16th through the 20th century. The Europeans were under the impression God was on their side and that he was the reason behind Native Americans dying in such large numbers. Some Native Americans however believed that God…

Throughout history, mankind has been faced with several catastrophes and crises that needed to be overcame to ensure existence. Three epidemic plagues that humanities are credited to have defeated are the Black Death of the fourteenth century, the Justinian Plague, and the late nineteenth century Chinese Plague (Rosen 247). Being said, one of the most destructive disaster’s the human race has witnessed was the Black Death, which devastated the structure of the world at the time. A civilization…

The Black Death The Black Death was a deadly plague, made up of the septicaemic, the pneumonic and the bubonic plague. It occurred during the Middle Ages killing millions from China, across to Europe and down to Africa and Egypt. The plague was a pandemic because this it was so brutal and damaged a vast amount of the population in many different countries. The septicaemic The rarest and most deadly form of the plague was the septicaemic. It attacked you from your blood stream and within hours…

The burden of diseases Ebola in Guinea infects people regardless age, gender or economic status. The distribution is very rapid and the contagiousness is very high. The poverty level is very high in Guinea. But, I believe that the contagiousness is not related to the situation of poverty in the Country. However, the poverty can affect the compliance of the basis hygiene rules (hand washing) that can facilitate the contamination. Ebola outbreak is a real burden of diseases on the health care…

A-2 The black plague spread quickly throughout Europe. In Tuscany the death rate ran high from 60 percent. They had no explanation for the plague and some blamed the Jews. Boccaccio’s Decameron is a collection of stories that represented life during and after the plague. The stories are about a boy and a woman who escaped Florence and moved to the countryside. Boccaccio who had lived through the plague wrote 100 stories about it describing in details what the setting in Florence was like when…

Jamela Mavrakis Anderson, Fever 1793 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 249pgs. The Epidemic of Yellow Fever, 1793 Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with fever and muscle ache. Then, targets often become jaundiced; this is where “Yellow” fever comes from. Although Fever 1793 is historical fiction, Anderson achieved massive amounts of research to…

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…