Government? There was no government as we know it today. There were kings, queens and the church. They ran for their lives and left an area when the plague broke out and often kept moving.
they thought that if they carried flowers or if they smoked tobaco or joined the church the plague would stop
There was a particularly nasty outbreak of the plague in London at that time.
paul can only stop this Well this answer.........SUCKS!!! What the hell do you mean by Paul can only stop this? this is a very important question to those who may have symptoms and be wondering if its gone forever! Well.. actually I've heard that the bacteria is still going around, not as severe, but now that we have antibiotics we can "cure" it.
The Black Death was a specific outbreak of bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in 1347 to 1352. The bubonic plague depends on its disease carriers, fleas and the rats they live on. The possibility of plague is reduced by keeping the numbers of these carriers low. Bubonic plague is also fairly easily treated by any of a number of modern antibiotics. Though the disease shows up every so often, perhaps every year, somewhere on the planet, it never has the ability to spread much, because it is too well understood and corrective measures are rather simple.
The black death went on for a long time, and there are many different arguments about when it started and finished. But most accounts tell that the Black Death came to a steady decrease and a final stop in 1358.
no because the plague with not killing so many people
i think they used blind puppies to 'stop' the plague Cats - once they were reestablished (they had been outlawed as "witches' familiars"), since cats kill rats and rats spread the Plague.
They don't have to be black cats. Also, cats aren't really "protectors" they just keep away the evil spirits of the dead and also keep away Anubis who is basicly a dog....thing....it tells you in the first "The Mummy" movie :D The only instince where a black cat has significance would be Halloween. But the origin of the Black Cat has nothing to do with Halloween, it refers to the time of The Black Plague. A theory that the dying people came up with was that cats were the cause of the horrid disease. Because the people wanted to stop the Bubonic Plague, they killed any cat they could find. The "Black" cat part is because the Bubonic Plague is also known as the "Black" Plague, thus the Black Cat came about. It was considered bad luck if a black cat crossed your path because it would mean that you would get the Bubonic Plague.
In medieval times (when the black plague was at it's fiercest people did not understand that the black plague was caught from fleas but thought it was an illness from Lucifer/satin/the devil. The medieval people thought the sickness would stop being contagious after the bodies were burnt. Unfortunately for them the fleas had fled the body long before it was burnt thus creating more sickness and death.
The plague is a disease that has been "wiped" out. Sometimes a small rodent in a remote area will be found with it and isolated, but that happens very seldom.
They did not know that plague was spread by vermin, so the did not kill off anything.
People would go around selling 'indulgences' or 'god's tokens' in the Black Death for people who had sinned and wanted to make it up to god so he wouldn't curse them with the plague. Of course it didn't stop them getting the plague so preists made a lot of money out of them!