Plagues of Egypt

A severely deadly disease commonly known as, “The Black Death”, was the plague that was caused by “bad bacteria”, from fleas transmitted to people that caused the death of the young, old, and sick wiping out a significant amount of people ranging from 25% to 50% of the population just in Western Europe alone. Other places affected were Eastern Europe and other remote places, this all had occured in 1347- 1351. Since the black death was very common it commonly also affected the people surrounding…

The book The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350 is a strong compilation of texts of the plague times. The documents John Aberth collected pieced together a narrative with several views. The section ‘The Artistic Response’ was the most interesting to me, and I was excited to find one of the prompts based on it. I believe that the most important plague-centric themes in the art of medieval society were the Dance of Death and worms. In my essay below, I hope to explain how these themes…

This article is within direct correlation of our recent studies in the specific area of the Black Death (Bubonic Plague) which caused 50 Million or 60% of Europe’s entire population to disintegrate into infectious bodies. In our reading in class we learned of what is widely accept by accredited historians, who believe the Bubonic Plague began as a minor bacteria within rats, which then migrated via sea trading boats which allows rats to breed at an expeditious rate which was uncontrollable.…

The bubonic plague was an important historical event that changed the history was viewed in killing. From enforcing laws on workers and unsanitary conditions to Hollywood producing series of films to reenactment, both were pointed to one thing; the bubonic plague was a series killer. The movie “Black Death” shows dramatic scenery that vividly displays an image into the viewer’s eye on what the life was like during the mid-thirteen hundreds. The movie, researches, and accounts on this event shows…

The plague is probably best known in the West as the disease that caused the Black Death in Europe in the fourteenth century. Nearly two-thirds of the population of Europe was killed, leaving a marked impact on Western culture (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2014). However, plague has not been eradicated and continues to be a disease that humans contend with in the twenty-first century. Natural disasters, human conflict, and abnormally warm and dry weather conditions can all cause increases…

Black Plague, the Bubonic Plague, The Plague, and Pestilence. The Black Plague occurred during 1348-1349 in Western Europe, but if you include Eastern Europe as well and it’s other more remote places then the years would be 1347-1351. According the article named The Black Death, Historians believe that 25%-50% of the entire population of Western Europe died in these two years. From the same article, other pestilences went through Europe and the Middle Ages, but what made the Black Plague so…

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…

The plague arrived by ship in October of 1347. The tragedy was extraordinary, killing around 60 percent of Europe’s entire population. About 50 million people were killed because of the plague in a seven year time span. Understandably, citizens were terrified that the disease was coming for their own village. The plague caused great panic and terror around all of Europe. People were never able to feel safe during this devastating time period. The plague can be transmitted by contaminated food or…

existence of the Bubonic Plague. What is a disease? A disease is well known to be detrimental to your health and deadly. A disease like the Bubonic Plague can wipe out a portion of a society. People during this grotesque disease tried to eat nutritional food and to stay hygienic to prevent getting the plague. Other diseases were also a threat like dysentery, Gangrenous, gonorrhea, and influenza (labelle.org). These diseases were not as widely spread or as deadly as the plague. For all of them,…

1. Introduction Lernaea infection is a major disease problem encountered in carp culture in the Indian subcontinent and has been reported from Indian major carps Catla (Catla catla), Rohu (Labeo rohita), Mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) , exotic carps silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) and indigenous carps Labeo fimbriatus (Nandeesha et al., 1984, 1985; Tamuli and Shanbhouge, 1996; Zafar et al., 2001). The three Indian Major Carps viz., Catla, Rohu and…