Pneumonic plague

The Black Death Did you know that the Black Death wiped out 30-60% of the European population? Some diseases can be almost power less but others are as mighty as an army and they can wipe out a large portion of the population. The Black Death, a bacteria, is deadly and wiped out about 75 million people, but it is less of a threat today. First, it is important to understand where the disease traveled to and some warning signs. To begin, the disease was passed on too many places, that was…

Central Asia, spread East through the Silk Road and reached city of Caffa. Mongols who were victims to the plague threw dead bodies over the walls of Caffa, which began the spread of disease in Europe. Although its peak was between 1347 and 1351, the Black Death lasted for over a century, hitting different regions in Europe and around the world at different periods of time. The Black Death, or the plague, resulted in the death of almost half…

The Black Death was a plague that wrecked havoc throughout Europe in the mid-14th century from 1347 and 1351. The plague caused fear throughout the people of Europe because in just four years, an estimated 25 million people were killed. Through that fear were the reactions that all humans have to stressing times, those reactions were to blame something else for the sickness, to avoid the sickness, and to explain the sickness. Some of Europe's people had the reaction of blame towards…

The Black Death was a major killing disease that wiped out ruffle roughly 25 million people in under 5 years according to Pope Clement VI. It only lasted from 1347 to 1352, yet it still managed to make a major impact on the European pPopulation according to Pope Clement VI. The disease had an impact on many jobs and put a test to on how faithful the populationy were to their religion. These are just some of the things that changed the dead post-Black Death community of Medieval Europe. The main…

The Late Middle Ages in Europe Around (1300-1400) B.C, a lady name Yersinia who was a foremost actor played a vital role surviving in ground-squirrel populations around the globe and was the cause of spreading plague due to her idea of killing the less convivial hosts. “The Plague did not kill off the Middle Ages, but Yersinia played a critical role in shaping its final act” (Dutton, Marchand, Harkness 299). The Fourteenth Century was a time when Europe was filled with calamities, severe weather…

where there was the most human interactions take place and where most jobs were held, and even spreading to farmlands where human interaction was limited. The plague caused a major downfall in Europe’s society, killing off half of Europe’s population, killing farm animals and crops, and turning cities into ghost towns. Furthermore the plague ripped through villages and cities turning them to ghost towns, killing off entire populations, and leaving no one spared. Killing the population ment…

The Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague, or otherwise called the Black Death, was the most devastating pandemic seen in human history. It had spread throughout Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century, killing millions of people. Regardless of the high death toll and some future consequences, this pandemic influenced people of the fourteenth century economically, politically and socially in a positive way and laid the foundation of modern medicine. Before the Bubonic Plague, the overpopulation…

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…

“repressive legislation that forced peasants to stay in their farms,” freezing their wages at low levels. With France increasing the taille (a direct tax on the peasantry), the English Parliament passed a Statute of Laborers, “limiting wages to pre plague levels and restricting the ability of peasants to leave the land of their original masters”; opposition among the peasantry towards this legislation and set of strict rules was a prominent factor in several peasant rebellions, such as the…

Moalem talks about how cholesterol rises too. Like when you consume alcohol, your body detoxifies it and then extracts calories from it. It's a difficult process that involves many different enzymes and a lot of organs, although most of the process takes place in the liver. First, an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase converts the alcohol into another chemical called acetaldehyde; another enzyme—cleverly called acetaldehyde dehydrogenase—converts the acetaldehyde into acetate. And a third…