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How the bubonic plague spread?
It was spread by fleas, who normally host on rats, yet in some cases, they used humans as a host, and thus started the plague. It cannot be spread from human to human; only way is for the flea to infect you.
How long did the bubonic plague take to spread all the way across Europe?
It was stimated that it took around 4 years.
What direction did the black death spread during the Th century?
The plague seems to have started in China in the 1330s.In 1347, armies attacking the town of Caffa in the Crimea, catapulted plague corpses into the town. The Italian merchants took the plague with them to Sicily in October 1347. From there then to Europe.
How do you believe the plague traveled to Paris overland or along the shipping routes?
It traveled by ship, because they used ships to go many places that we use airplanes for now. It also traveled by human beings going from one place to another on foot or horses. It spread quickly due to the fact that the people did not understand how to prevent it and did not have any effective medicines for it. When a person died of the plague, their corpse often spread the plague, because many times the dead were not buried quickly due to so many people being sick. The priests would visit the sick and they spread the plague themselves that way, unknowingly. The people who were sick were not always quarantined so they had contact with people that they then gave the plague to. There were traveling bands of people who thought the way to stop the plague was to beat themselves with whips, and they spread the plague from place to place, because they went from town to town preaching that the people needed to repent and punish themselves in order for God to deliver them of this plague.
Where do plagues come from?
rats, mostly black rats and rodents. the fleas came on them and then sucked there blood then go to humans and spread the plagueto others and the plague is very contagious so it spread and thats where the black plague came from! hope that answered your question:D :)
How did the Black Death spread from China?
After the black death hit China, It spread to England by trade, and the Asian sailors. In England, one the rats had died, the fleas would spread, and get to people. The people would then have black spots on their bodies. A common way of trying to cure this disease was by cutting open veins that lead to your heart. Thanks, hope i helped, A
What can Bubonic Plague cause?
The main way to cause this plague is by bacteria called yersinia pestis. The bacteria is spread by bites of infected fleas and rodents. It can also be carried by other small animals. Side effects are headaches, fever and swollen lymph glands.
How do you get the black plague?
Plague is a disease that is spread by the fleas of infected rats. If you can kill all the rats, you can slow down the spread of plague. Unfortunately, the highly superstitious people of the middle ages associated cats with witchcraft with the devil, so many towns killed all their cats - which allowed rats to take over, and the plague came with them. So if you don't have plague, leave town and live in a cottage with lots of cats. You'll be safe from plague. Until the villagers come to burn down your house, because of all the cats.....
How did the black death spread so quickly through European population?
The Black Death was caused by bacteria carried by rats and their fleas. It spread quickly because rats lived in ships that traveled from one port to the next, and so the plague was carried across Europe in that way. Inland communications were often carried on by ships on rivers, so the plague spread up rivers quickly, as well. The plague spread more slowly in areas without sea or river traffic. There were a very few places it did not reach at all. But most places in Europe are not far from water ports of one kind or another.
How did people attempt to stop them from catching the black death?
There was little scientific or medical knowledge in the Middle Ages, so most of what they did to try to stop the plague did not have any effect on it. Some things they did were: applied poultices of various foods and substances to the buboes (the swellings caused by the plague); opened the buboes with knives, which actually would make the plague spread faster; various folk medicine or witchcraft remedies such as using a frog applied to the buboes, to try to remove the plague; prayer and blessing by priests, which often resulted in the death of the priest from the plague; blaming minorities and trying to stop the plague by removing the minorities (such as Jews) from their midst; herbal and dietary remedies; flagellation (whipping themselves) was practiced by some in an effort to get God's forgiveness, because they believed the plague was the result of sin. Unfortunately, the flagellation opened wounds on the bodies of such people, giving an easy route for the disease to spread. These people, known as "flagellants," also travelled from town to town to spread their belief that the plague could be stopped in this way, and the fact that they travelled also increased the plague, because they were carrying it with them in their bodies from town to town.
How the plague travelled?
The Black Plague travelled by the infected fleas living on the host, which was most of the time a rat. In the time of the black plague in Europe, especially in England, people were very religious. Many thought that the plague was a punishment from God and thereby started making antidotes and so called "cures". One "cure" was brought by the flagellants, who believed that if they publicly hurt themselves, and shed blood, they would be spared by God's wrath. The blood from the flagellants was rubbed in the eyes and on the face of onlookers who believed the flagellants to be holy. This was not the smartest idea because blood was another way the disease travelled. Also, people who had the plague were quarantined, and to avoid being quarantined, family members or servants that had the plague were hidden away. The plague was very contagious and so the families themselves got the plague as well. For more information on the plague and how it was spread I recommend using the book Daily Life during the Black Deathby Joseph P. Byrne.
Where did the plague start?
In the fire What sort of answer is that above????? The bubonic plague was thought to have started in the Gobi Desert and carried by fleas on rats it reached the Crimea in 1346. In 1347 it was in Constantinople and soon arrived in Western Europe. The plague of 1665 started in Central Asia, it spread worldwide and killed millions
