Causes Of The Bubonic Plague
The Black Death was a deadly, devastating outbreak disease also known as the Bubonic Plague, it was between 1347 and 1352, that caused an estimated 25 million deaths in Europe. Many suggest it started in Asia. The disease was carried by fleas that lived on rats. Historians think that black rats living on European merchant ships caught the disease, eventually bringing it to Europe.
First why don't we figure out what exactly the Bubonic Plague means. Bubonic is named after the buboes (swollen lymph nodes) which develop within a week after an infected flea bit you. A plague is a bacterial infection most of the time found in rodents and the fleas that they carry, in some cases the fleas would jump onto people and bite them which would cause bad situations making notorious outbreak …show more content…
Many of the sailors on the ships were dead, or were very sick. The sick sailors had fevers, were vomiting, in great pain and were covered in weird black boils that had blood and pus coming out, which gave the sickness its name the Black Death. The government told the sailors to leave the harbor, but it was already too late. By the time the disease had spread it killed at least one third of the people in Europe which resulted in over 25 million deaths. So many died that they no longer could bury them and they had to put them into massive pits. Since the disease was as easy to catch just by a cough and the people still hadn't known that the disease was being carried by rats it spreaded into larger villages and towns quickly, and some towns or villages were wiped out with no one standing. Many thought it was the end of the world, so people locked themselves in their houses. This didn't help at all because rats and fleas, were still everywhere. Some even burned down houses and even entire villages to try and stop the
First why don't we figure out what exactly the Bubonic Plague means. Bubonic is named after the buboes (swollen lymph nodes) which develop within a week after an infected flea bit you. A plague is a bacterial infection most of the time found in rodents and the fleas that they carry, in some cases the fleas would jump onto people and bite them which would cause bad situations making notorious outbreak …show more content…
Many of the sailors on the ships were dead, or were very sick. The sick sailors had fevers, were vomiting, in great pain and were covered in weird black boils that had blood and pus coming out, which gave the sickness its name the Black Death. The government told the sailors to leave the harbor, but it was already too late. By the time the disease had spread it killed at least one third of the people in Europe which resulted in over 25 million deaths. So many died that they no longer could bury them and they had to put them into massive pits. Since the disease was as easy to catch just by a cough and the people still hadn't known that the disease was being carried by rats it spreaded into larger villages and towns quickly, and some towns or villages were wiped out with no one standing. Many thought it was the end of the world, so people locked themselves in their houses. This didn't help at all because rats and fleas, were still everywhere. Some even burned down houses and even entire villages to try and stop the