Yersinia pestis

The Colombian Exchange impacted both the Americas and Europe in various ways that are still apparent hundreds of years later. “America Before Columbus” provides a closer look at the events and people who shaped the American landscape. The Columbian Exchange refers to the trade of plants, animals, people, resources, and bacteria from the Old World (Europe) to the New World (the Americas). Plants that were abundant in Europe, for example wheat, rice, peaches, and apples did not exist in the New…

Analise Tenney Problem Set #1 PHP 405- Dr. Caffrey October 14, 2015 Chapter 15- All in Good Haste In 1993, news spread among the entire Navajo Nation of three strong young members of the community who unexpectedly died after suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS. Upon discovery that these deaths were interrelated through family, the state’s medical examiner alerted the forensic pathologist of the possibility of a communicable disease problem. The New Mexico Department of…

Major Causes Ending the Middle Ages The Dark Ages was an intense period of time starting after the collapse of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance. The Dark Ages lasted from between the 5th century and the 15th century (Dr. C. George Boeree). Many unfortunate disasters occurred over the span of these ten centuries. The source of the end of the Dark Ages and beginning of the Renaissance is constantly being a hot topic at a debate. Scholars are being given a hard task of…

Egyptian scientists have come up with King Tut supposedly dying from Gangrene. The infection somehow infested his body through an open wound from a fractured left leg. Without the proper medical treatment through antibiotics, the rotting stage was nearly absolute. How the whole fracturing of the leg goes is the mystery. Massive trauma is believed to be what places him on his death bed. Many experts have come up with a possible chariot crash. Some experts believe Tut was on his knees when a…

Before Europe was struck by the Black Plague, the majority of European countries were run using two systems, one political and one economic, referred to as the feudal system and the manorial system respectively. Under these systems, nobles built castles to serve as defenses and gave pieces of land called fiefs to knights as a form of payment for their services and protection, as the rich were in desperate need of warriors to defend them after a series of invasions left them unable to depend on…

The Hundred Years War was suspended in 1348 because so many soldiers had died. There was one time, in Strasbourg, that nearly 200 Jews were burned to death by an angry mob on 1349 (Knox). There were many rebellions in the 1300s, like The Jacquerie in 1358 (Knox). The plague affected trade so badly that most were forced to beg or steal food and money (Museum of London). Harmful fruits like unripe plums, unripe almonds, fresh beans, and figs were forbidden from entering the cities/city (Usher).…

In 500-1500 A.D. Europe was in a dark age, mainly because of the Bubonic Plague, the Crusades, and their Government. The main reason Europe was in a dark age was because of the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague was detrimental to Europe, because many people suffered from death and depression. If the plague doctor came to your house it meant that you had the plague. They would check if you had the purple/black boils and if you were throwing up blood. They would also try several methods to heal…

According to extensive research done careful historians, the bloodshed was very extensive. “Campbell may be referring to the martyrology of Samuel Clarke, written in 1651. Perhaps this figure of 68 million came from Brownlee or somewhere else, possibly the writings of Llorente or Clarks Martyrology, cited above. Such figures sometimes appear in recent books, such as Wilders, but in general, all the figures about the number killed by the Papacy go back many years and have reputable sources. It is…

Throughout the history, many lethal diseases ended civilizations such as the black death, which is believed to have killed as much as half of Europe in a span of only four years in the middle of the 14th century, from 1347 to 1351[1]. Unfortunately, at that time people did not have enough knowledge or technology to predict these lethal diseases or even treat them. Nowadays, due to the development in Biology, scientists are not only able to fight the current diseases, but also able to set…

Flea beetles are pest of brassicaes, creating holes in the leaves and stems of seedlings. The seedlings are highly attacked as soon as they surface above the ground level and the damage of these beetles are very pronounced on young plants and even cause plant death. Some flea beetles are general feeders, others attack only particular types of plant. The flea beetle has a narrow host range to plants primarily in the brassicaceae. Most of the flea beetles prefer cruciferous plants which produce…