Pneumonic plague

were given small fiefs to work on and minimal food. Feudalism, a system of reciprocity, ensured peace and stability within Europe until the plague was present. The Feudal System was disrupted after the outbreak of the Black Death. Surviving peasants changed their outlook on life as they believed they were spared by God. The scarcity of peasants after the plague led to a deficiency in labour. It became a valuable commodity as landlords competed for workers and tenants. They offered the…

The Black Death was one of the most catastrophic pandemics in human history. Between the years of 1346 and 1353, the plague killed an estimated 75 to 200 million people. The Black death had originated in the plains of Central Asia, it quickly travelled along the Silk Road, until it reached Crimea in 1343. It was then spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe being carried by fleas living on black rats. Symptoms of the black death included victims having fevers, abdominal pain, feeling…

You can not imagine what I have gone through last year. A great bubonic plague epidemic hit London and led to the death of thousands of people. Recently, I heard some horrible news that the plague will spread to the Glasgow soon. I’m so worried about you. So I’m going to tell you something about my experiences, what will the life with plague be like and how to deal with it, so that you can prepare yourself mentally in advance. Before the situation got worse, I bought a plenty of food to sustain…

later they will probably get fleas. These little pest can cause itching to someone’s pet and they can develop tape worms in the animal’s intestines if the flea infestation is not taken care of. Fleas are also thought to be responsible for the bubonic plague. This annoying parasites effects it host in some cases transmitting disease. To get the parasite off the host dawn dish soap kills the parasite and its eggs. If the infestation is in one’s house there are proper flea solutions such as flea…

Eastern continent. Unbeknownst to the merchants that were traveling during this time, they not only spread many goods from the rural areas of Europe to its richer inner districts, but, they harbored one of the worst diseases known to mankind, the Black Plague. By 1348, the disease had spread from the Silk Roads to Constantinople, to which over the course of its life-span (slowing around 1353), had killed between 30-60% of Europe’s population. A grand total of 200 million people had perished…

In the summer of 1793, Yellow Fever was a plague that took thousands of souls of people that lived in Philadelphia. The Yellow fever got to Philly by foreign ships with mosquito that have bread in the cargo areas. People got yellow fever by an infected mosquito. The mosquito got infected by biting people that were already infected. The people that treated the infection were doctors from Philadelphia and French doctors. Both the French and American doctors tried to help all the yellow fever…

painful disease, as if you contracted the plague you would have symptoms such as black buboes (Buboes are painful masses that appear in the groin and armpits) which would have continued for approximately a week. There was always a tiny chance of living if the buboes did burst. What caused the “Black Death?” Stuart doctors said that dogs and cats, pigs, pet rabbits and pigeons could spread the plague. The government believed them and tried to prevent the plague by killing all the dogs in the…

Yellow Fever snuck up and swept people by their feet to the ground. Truck loads of French and Philadelphia doctors rushed looking for a cure for the inconvenient yellow fever victims. It all started on a serene alluring sunny day spread by infected mosquitos. The horrid disease believed to have been brought by foreign boats and refugees. When it struck another victim it got up to bat and hit a homerun killing every player trying to catch it. Yellow Fever swept away about 2,000-5,000 souls.…

In the novel Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, a serve collapse occurred within the city. This outbreak affected many individuals, and the survival rate kept decreasing; 99.9% of the population has already been killed. The culprit to the collapse was known as the Georgia flu. This flu was extremely contagious. But in the novel, Mandel encounters on an interesting concept. She wants to explain that even before the collapse, life was still difficult. One way that Mandel demonstrates…

Back in the 1850s in New York, an epidemic blazed. People were becoming sick and dying. Even babies were suffering. This was the Swill Milk Scandal, a plot to make money that killed as many as 8,000 infants in just one year. People were drinking tampered swill milk and still would have been had not regular New Yorkers raised their voices and stood up for those that were sick. The same is true in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is set in 1930s Maycomb, Alabama. A girl named…