deadly disease that forms buboes and causes many other terrible symptoms. The bubonic plague affected the world three different times. The first time the pandemic hit was in 542‚ it was called the Justinian Plague. The second time was in 1347‚ it was called the Black Death. The third time was in 1665‚ it was called the Great Plague of London. A pandemic is the term used when a disease occurs more than once‚ affects a vast region‚ and affects an enormous amount of people. The Black Death caused the greatest
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Pandemics are disease that spread over a country or the world. Typhus is an example of a pandemic. Typhus is a bacterial disease that is spread by lice and fleas. Brill Zinsser is the discoverer of the disease and typhus is also known as “Brill Zinsser Disease”. Two types of most common typhus are endemic and murine. Endemic typhus is usually seen in places with cold temperature‚ endemic typhus are sometimes called “jail fever” or “camp fever” because typhus killed hundreds of thousands of people
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Deadly Invaders Project 1. A virus is an infective agent that has a nucleic acid molecule in a protective coat. They generally range in 20 to 300 nm‚ has RNA or DNA that multiplies in a cell. A lytic phase in a virus is when the conditions for infecting are favorable‚ when there are many “victim cells” and good conditions outside the cell. 2. Viruses are not alive‚ as they only have DNA/RNA and few other necessary ingredients of a cell. They lack too many things to be called living. Viruses reproduce
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they were guilty for the cause of the plague‚ by poisoning wells at this same time. Muslim society at this time that might have associated the Black Death with an apocalypse‚ also the Muslim society were not held responsible for the ravages of the pandemic. Paths of the Black Death spread mostly through the Mediterranean sea. All in all the Plague was an unfortunate event that killed 25-45% of the populations if it wasn’t for the sanitation‚ rats‚ fleas‚ and hygiene the plague would have possibly been
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The Doomsday Paper - Biology How is a 21st century influenza epidemic connected to the 14th century Black Death pandemic? Connie Willis‚ in her fictional Doomsday Book‚ takes the reader on a journey through time‚ examining the devastating effects of these two diseases. Hapless Kivrin‚ the story’s heroin‚ contracts influenza in the 21st century as she prepares to travel back in time to the 14th century on a research expedition. She is accidentally sent back to the wrong decade by an influenza infected
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There had been several outbreaks of diseases throughout history such as Plague of Justinian (541-542)‚ Antonine Plague (165AD)‚ Third Cholera Pandemic (1852-1860)‚ etc. The Black Death had been one of the most castastrophic pandemics in human history. It resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75-200 million people in Eurasia between 1346 and 1353. The cause of this plague is believed to be the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The Black Plague changed the world by creating a series of religious‚ social
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What better time than in the mid-fourteenth century Europe for a pandemic to strike. Populations in European cities were at the highest they had ever been‚ which often meant many individuals living within the same cramped residence. In recent years‚ grain had also become scarce due several consecutive bad crops years‚ resulting a decline of livestock‚ and a rise in famine. This situation‚ coupled with the present society’s minimal knowledge on germ contamination and basic hygiene created the ideal
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Influenza infections are the leading cause of death. In 1918 Spanish flu killed so many people in the united state‚ and spread quickly like wild fire throughout the entire world. Many people died within the first few days after infection and others died of complications soon after. Nearly half of those who died were young‚ healthy adults. One of the most unusual aspects of the Spanish flu was its ability to kill young adults. The reasons for this remain uncertain. Even today there is no specific
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The Global Public Health Threats in The Future -Prabesh Ghimire The world has been encountering the numerous public health challenges for ages. Majority of these challenges still persists to the date & further‚new series of serious public health problems have been threatening the global community. The public health problem that evolved with the birth of infectious diseases during the primitive ages have now become more pronounced. On one hand‚ the effects of communicable diseases have
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the deaths of 75 to 200 million deaths‚ almost a third of the population. The black plague is also known as the black death because‚ of the dark patches on the skin caused by subcutaneous bleeding. The black plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. A deadly epidemic known as the Sixth-Century Plague or Justinian’s plague struck Constantinople and parts of southern Europe 800 years earlier. The Black Death returned several times throughout the rest of the century. (mid 14 century)
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