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 Black Death was one of the few epidemics that greatly affected demographic catastrophes. Researchers noticed that the 11th-14th centuries were distressful times with this assassinating disease that had spread throughout many continents around the world by the lives of the people‚ population and societal developments. The Black Death is known by many names such as “the blue sickness‚” la pest‚ “the great mortality or it’s scientific name Yersinia pestis (Benedictow‚ 2013). The Yersinia pestis
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When reacting to the Black Plague‚ Christian and Muslim responses were very different but the same in some ways. Some tried to find cures and others found people to blame for it. They had tried to find treatments and preventions for the plague. The responses from the living were shocking but yet expected and during the time that the Black Plague hit‚ religion was the most powerful and the two big and common religions that got hit hardest were Christianity and Islam. The cause for this disease and
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Plagues and Peoples was written by William H. McNeill. The basis of this book all falls on epidemiology‚ also known as the study of patterns‚ causes‚ and effects that disease and health conditions have on certain populations. McNeill’s writing shows how the relationship that mankind‚ referred to a macroparasites‚ and parasites‚ referred to as microparasites‚ have made an impact on the world through history. The relationship at first during existence was said to be “balanced”‚ but when mankind in
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Midnight Theft. The destructive plague stole during midnight—it stole lives. Deep in the heart of Galich‚ people were dying‚ and the whole country was beginning to perish. The flowers withered as they bloomed. The mountain peaks crumbled under viscous weight. Animals fled to holes to live out the final moments of their life. People were distraught‚ and chaos was invading every end of the world. Panic had been cast over civilisation‚ caused by the onslaught of the plague grasping at every opportunity
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Poverty Negatively Effects Academic Achievement The epidemic of poverty amongst students has been shown to consistently have a negative impact on student’s academic opportunities and achievements. Sadly poverty affects a large amount of students found in the world today and to make matters worse poverty has the power to effect student’s progress even when it strikes in the most indirect of ways. Poverty is affecting a significantly large amount of students worldwide and even though the United
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Its 1348‚ the world has evolved through unpresented events; it has drastically changed…. not for good. In Europe a contagious plague caused the death of many… this so-called plague was caused by rodents; they were bitten by parasites. After that‚ the infected rodent transmitted the parasite to a human. When this parasite bit the human‚ it vomitted the rodent’s nauseated blood to the victim. The virus spreads through your body while devouring major functions of your brain; causing a high dose of anxiety
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The Plague was a Magnificent tragedy that the people couldn’t do anything about. “The Plague is a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium‚ typically with the formation of buboes and sometimes infection of the lungs.”(-------) The main ideas about the plague in the paper is the causes‚ having the plague‚ and the biggest is the toll it brought in society. There are many causes of the plague. One is all of the bacteria from the plague. “The plague is caused by a bacterium
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The Fever and The American Plague Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres because I can learn while being entertained. The Fever and The American Plague helped prove that to me even more. These books were about yellow fever which was an epidemic that spread panic through our entire country. When it first broke out in Philadelphia unsanitary city conditions and dirty water were thought by some to be the cause. This disease turned out to be carried through mosquitoes. I enjoyed both these
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No Plague at Pistoia Pistoia‚ which was a city that was affected by the plague‚ created a set of ordinances to stop the spreading of the plague. On May second of 1348‚ Pistoia’s government forced twenty-three ordinances onto the citizens of Pistoia which became known as the Ordinances Against the Spread of Plague at Pistoia. In this paper‚ I will be demonstrating why some of these ordinances are counterproductive because they are too strict on the citizens of Pistoia‚ they are unnecessary due
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