How did you catch the black death?

Answer 1

You caught the black death when a plaged flea that had bitten a plaged rat reguritated the plague into your blood system before sucking your blood. Within four to five day a grown adult would be dead.

Answer 2

There were 3 types of Plague(only 2 are ever talked about though so i will only explain 2)

The Bubonic Plague was usually fatal, however, some did recover. Rats would have the disease and then a flea would bite it. This would mean the disease was in that fleas blood stream now. When the flea now bit a human the following symptons would occur.

· Day 1: Swelling Buboes on the neck, groin and arm-pits

· Day 2: Fever and Vomiting

· Day 3:Bleeding under the skin that looks like severe bruising

· Day 4: Severe spasms. Scrunching up and then wanting to straighten out

· Day 5: If a person survives this far, the buboes will burst and black fluid will ooze out. They may survive this.

The 2nd type was the pneumonic plague. This was caused from people coughing and sneezing. The Pneumonic Plague was less common and a lot more dangerous.

If someone caught the Pneumonic Plague their respiratory system would was attacked, meaning the victims lungs would collapse.

· This would lead to coughing and vomiting, a process witch would spread the disease further to all in the vicinity.

· This type of plague was so fatal because it could pass through the air un-noticed.

· It was almost always fatal.

Answer 3

The disease is transmitted from animals to humans. Plague infects wild rodents, especially rats, and is transmitted animal to animal and occasionally to humans by flea bites. As infected rats die, their body temperature drops, and hungry fleas jump to nearby sources of warmth and liquid blood.

Answer 4

The mechanism by which Y. pestis was usually transmitted was established in 1898 by Paul-Louis Simond and was found to involve the bites of fleas whose midguts had become obstructed by replicating Y. pestis several days after feeding on an infected host.

This blockage results in starvation and aggressive feeding behavior by the fleas, which repeatedly attempt to clear their blockage by regurgitation, resulting in thousands of plague bacteria being flushed into the feeding site, infecting the host.

Answer 5

The Black death was most commonly caught from fleas. The fleas came to the towns and cities on the backs of rats which stowed away on cargo ships.and you may get chicken pocks

Answer 6

black death was spread by Yersinia pestis bacterium. It spread via rats and fleas.

Answer 7

black death was caused by. Rats, fleas and dead bodies. Yersinia pestis bacterium was the cause.

Answer 8

yes cause if you coughed on somebody and you had it then they will have it

Answer 9

It is believed that the black death, or Bubonic Plague as it is more formally known, was transmitted by the bites of infected fleas, which in turn were carried by rats.

Answer 10

They bit the rat that had the disease and then moved on to humans and bit them. Since they carried the disease the human got the disease.