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    Black Plague When the Black Plague is mentioned most people think of the first occurrence from 1348-1400‚ yet many people don’t know that it reoccurred when Shakespeare was alive. Shakespeare was affected by the Black Plague in several ways: many of his family members died‚ his family incurred the high expenses of medical care‚ and he lived in an environment where people were dying everywhere and bodies even littered the streets. Many people in Shakespeare’s family died from the Plague‚ during

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    Malaria Vs. The Plague

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    World History II 12/10/13 Malaria VS. The Black Plague In the fourteenth century‚ death and devastation swept from Asia to Europe in the form of the Black Plague‚ killing nearly one third of the world’s population. The Black Plague was one of the most horrid pandemics in history. Arguably‚ other modern day diseases such as Malaria‚ have‚ and continue to impact the world in many ways. While the medical responses‚ based off knowledge and economic results differ from the Black Death to Malaria

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    The Ten Plagues of Egypt

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    song in class your challenge is to memorize and/or remix it!!!! First God sent‚ Plague number one‚ Turned the Nile into blood. All the people in Egypt were feeling pretty low‚ They told Pharaoh "Let them Go!" Then God sent‚ Plague number two‚ Jumping frogs all over you. All the people in Egypt were feeling pretty low‚ They told Pharaoh "Let them Go!" Then God sent‚ Plague number three‚ Swarms of gnats from head to knee. All the people in Egypt were feeling

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    Kieran Intemann 9/24/12 Plague in the Middle Ages The main cause of death in the Middle Ages was the Plague‚ or the Black Death. Beginning in the year 1348‚ the Plague killed about a third of the population of Europe. Part of the reason was that many of the streets and houses in Europe were disgusting and filthy. Another part of the reason was that the cures were not available to most people. Lastly‚ a reason that the Plague spread so quickly throughout Europe is that people had no idea that they

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    Sarah Burns Evolution of Plague Bacteria The Bubonic Plague otherwise known as the Black Death‚ has gotten most of its attention from medieval paintings‚ poetry‚ and journals of revulsion. The real horror‚ was the disturbing biological evidence of the bacteria that caused all the pandemics‚ known as Yersinia pestis. The pathogen got its name from the two investigators Yersin and Kitasato. In 1894‚ Yersin was known as the main investigator (ergo. Named after him)‚ he claimed that the mice/rats were

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    The Black Plague Analysis

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    It’s common knowledge that the Black Plague terrorized and then transformed Western Europe. By the time it was over in 1351‚ the epidemic had killed between 25% and 50% of the population (Napp). People neither understood where this atrocity came from‚ nor how to protect themselves. Many people often only associate negative effects with the Black Death; however‚ although awful effects did spawn from this epidemic‚ it also opened the way for many important positive effects to happen too. The Black

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    The Plague of Justinian is the first documented‚ but the least known case of the bubonic plague. Beginning in 541 AD‚ the Plague of Justinian occurred during Emperor Justinian’s reign originating from Egypt then rapidly moving to Constantinople through trade routes. The disease quickly spread throughout the Mediterranean and as far as England and Ireland‚ lasting for about two hundred years. This paper will focus on the first outbreak during 541 AD – 544 AD in Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire

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    Plague Research Paper

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    The plague‚ which is caused by Yersinia pestis‚ a gram-negative rod-shaped‚ non-motile‚ non-sporulating bacterium has a great historical significance. Plague is a zoonotic disease transmitted to humans by rodents (e.g.‚ rats‚ mice‚ ground squirrels). Fleas that live on the rodents can transmit the bacteria to humans‚ who then suffer from the bubonic form of plague. The bubonic form may progress to the septicemic and pneumonic forms. Pneumonic plague would be the predominant form having potential

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    The plague/Black Death first popped up the the 13th century. A ship had arrived in Europe with many people that had the Black Death. They had symptoms that included fever‚ unable to eat‚ pain that was so bad they became crazy. One of the weirdest symptoms is having black boils on their skin. Boils are infected places of the skin that become full of pus and become swollen. The Black Death is caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis. The bacteria is most common in animals. It got passed to humans

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    most people know it today as The Plague‚ killed more than 20 million people in Europe and Asia in the Late Middle Ages. This horrific disease affected all aspects of life during the time. The population decreased by more than 60 percent. The Black Death got its name from the black boils that oozed blood and pus from all of its victims. These were called "buboes" and appeared black on the skin. "Blood and pus seeped out of these strange swellings‚

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