Pneumonic plague

The plague killed more than 25 million people around the world. The plague had lots of causes and effects. Most people in Europe experienced The Black Death. The plague’s cause sparked scientists all over the world. Scientists found bacteria to be one of the causes of The Black Death. The bacterium was called Yersinia pestis (Dobson 8). The bacterium circulated among rodents (Benedictow). This bacterium was once harmless, but evolved to kill thousands of people (“Researchers” O6a). Scientists…

The Black Death was an epidemic of the Bubonic Plague is one of the deadliest events occurred in history started in the 14th century. The disease was caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pettis that spread among the wild black rodents where they inhabit in a huge colony. Rome was one of many major cities that was greatly affected by the Black Death, if not the worse. We’ll be discussing how did the Black Death affect the city of Rome politically, socially and economically. So, it is necessary to…

Reflection Paper on Ghost Map John Snow is recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern epidemiology. In Ghost Map, it gives the details of John Snow’s efforts to discover that cholera was a water-borne illness. What John Snow did differently was he mapped the cases, and the map essentially represented each death as a bar. On the Broad Street pump, which was free, public source of drinking water for a long time, it located a well beneath Golden Square, to some of London’s poorest and…

moved its headquarters from Rome to Avignon, France, to escape infighting among the cardinals. In the end, some 75 million people succumbed, it is estimated. It took several centuries for the world's population to recover from the devastation of the plague, but some social changes, borne by watching corpses pile up in the streets, were permanent. Quick killer The disease existed in two varieties, one contracted by insect bite and another airborne. In both cases, victims rarely lasted more…

The bubonic plague was allegedly caused by a bacterium called “Yersina pestis”, which was often found on wild rodents in large quantities and densities. At the time, these “wild rodents” were mostly black rats that were found on ships that were used for trade. If a rat was a host to a flea carrying the deadly bacterium, the rat would most likely die within 14 days. In order to survive, the fleas would then turn to human hosts. This is how the plague spread. Once the bacterium was present, the…

The Potato Famine, or Blight, was first recorded August, 1845 in Dublin, Ireland. It was the beginning of the greatest famine Europe would face in the 19th century. In a mere five years the potato harvest failed four times. During the famine, “... over one million Irish perished and a further two million fled the land, never to return.” (Nally, David. “That Coming Storm”). In just under five years, three million people were either dead or had immigrated. Needless to say the Potato Famine forever…

time, which had begun to affect food resources and the economy. Seven years after, the Bubonic Plaque took over Europe and millions of lives were lost. “The year 1351 marked the last major outbreak of the Black Death, although local epidemics of the plague continued to occur in various locations throughout the world for the next several hundred years. Some of those outbreaks were nearly as severe as the first had been” (Black Death, 2016). The destruction that Europe experienced affected the…

Closset, but because Mozart was worried about finishing Requiem that their labors were ineffective. At one o’clock in the morning on December 5th, 1791 at the age of 35,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart past away. The exact cause of death is not known, this is due to the fact that there were limits in postmortem diagnosis. On his death certificate it shows the cause of death was Hitziges Frieselfieber which is severe miliary fever. Miliary fever is referring to a skin rash that looks like millet seeds.…

section of the world. An example of a epidemic is Yellow fever and pandemic is the Black Plaque. Yellow fever epidemic of 1793 is similar to the plague pandemic of the 14th century because the systems they affect, and the way they’re spread with the exception of the area they affected origin of the outbreak. The 1793 yellow fever is similar to the 1330 plague because they both are circulatory, and they are spread by insects. For instance both the the diseases affect the circulatory system which…

The Black Death was an extremely terrible illness that swept across Europe on someday in october in the year 1347. The Black Death was responsible for as many as 20 million people about one third of the continent. The Death arrived on trade ships and that’s how it got to europe there are still many unanswered questions about the illness and how it just disappeared after a five year spread. The year was 1347 was when twelve Genoese trading ships came to the sicilian port in…