The Black Death‚ or Black Plague‚ was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. It began in south-western Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s‚ where it received its name Black Death. The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic are estimated at least 75 million people. The Black Death is estimated to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe’s population. The Black Death had a drastic effect on Europe’s population‚ irrevocably changing Europe’s social structure
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During the renaissance time in London‚ cities did not have the sewage systems and cleanliness people have today. Disease and germs were floating in the people’s water and sitting on doors‚ tables‚ and chairs. Because of these things‚ the Bubonic Plague of London was started. But was hygiene the only reason the plague was started? And what is the Bubonic Plague? During the Renaissance time period‚ the Bubonic Plague killed many people in London‚ and this paper will state what caused it‚ the symptoms
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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 is an anaerobic bacteria in‚ which‚ humans can be infected by rat‚ flea or both. It has three main known forms: pneumonic‚ septicemic‚ and bubonic plagues. All three of these forms of Yersinia pestis are considered to be extremely deadly and dangerous.
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from septic spread (see preceding paragraph) of Yersinia. This is a most severe‚ rapid‚ and devastating form of infection. Droplet infection produced by aerosols could be used by bio-terrorists to wreck havoc on a population or army. The drawback to this approach is that there is no containing it and the disease could affect an invading army‚ too. The plague vaccine (described later) is essentially ineffective and it is no longer available. Pestis minor occurs in endemic areas (areas where there
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The Black Death is a time in medieval history that is to this day the worst demographic disaster in European history. The Black Death is the nickname of the disease “Yersinia Pestis” that hit the European world in the 1340 CE. This disease wiped out 80 million people total. The devastation of this disease makes the Black Death the most significant event that occurred in the later medieval period. The Black Death is the most significant event because of the devastating nature of the disease and the
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the years 1348–50 CE. Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death‚ analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe published in 2010 and 2011 indicates that the pathogen responsible was the Yersinia Pestis bacterium‚ probably causing several forms of the bubonic plague. The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of central Asia‚ where it then travelled along the Silk Road‚ reaching the Crimea by 1346. From there‚ it was
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known to date. Spreading throughout Central Asia and Europe in only a few years‚ around 75 million people fell victim to the plague Scientists discovered that the bacterium to blame was called Yersinia pestis. Yersinia originated from one of its founders – Swiss microbiologist Alexandre-Émile-John Yersin‚ and pestis being Latin for plague or pestilence. How it Spread At the time of the Black Death‚ it was unknown what the cause of the plague was. Then it was later discovered that rodents‚ or more so
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NAME COURSE PROFESSOR DATE The Causes and Effects of The Black Death The Bubonic Plague or the Black Death has been in the history books since the medieval times. This deadly disease has claimed nearly 1.5 million lives in Europe (Gottfried). The Black Death hit Europe in October of 1347 and quickly spread through most of Europe by the end of 1349 and continued on to Scandinavia and Russia in the 1350s. Not only did the plague effect the European population by killing one-third to two-thirds
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It’s .5 by 1.0 micrometers in size- and it destroyed Europe. It’s Yersinia pestis‚ the bacterium that causes the plague. The Black Death and the Plague of Justinian had profound effects on society. Both cultures‚ when faced with the plague‚ reacted differently. The Plague of Justinian was the first recorded plague epidemic. It occurred in the 6th century‚ from around 541 to 542 A.D. It spread to the whole of the Byzantine empire and killed approximately 10-20 million people. It was said that the
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etc. lots of these cures are absurd but some of them like aromatherapy and leech therapy are still used today. Pope Clement VI had the ideas to sit between two large flames. This proved effective as the flames cleansed the air and stopped the yersinia pestis from spreading. There were a lot of unusual and unhelpful cures for the Black Death in medieval
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