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Black Death was spread due to dead rats and dead bodies. Cleaning them prevented Plague spread as there are no fleas.
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What was the most effective remedy for the plague?
Quarantine
Did quarantine cure bubonic plague in the middle ages?
Quarantining someone only kept the virus from spreading, it did not purge the plague virus from their bodies. They would have most definitely died.
What will they do to people with the plague?
Well, in the old days, they would quarantine the sick person and the family of the sick person into houses or ghettos so they couldn't infect others. You won't have to worry about the plague right about now, but I assume if a plague did appear suddenly, medical experts would get their butts in high gear. The quarantine would most likely still be used, but much more civilly ie: the government would supply food and daily needs.
What was the cure to the plague?
There was no cure. After a great deal of dead bodies, the plague died out as a result of a low population. If the plague where to break out today there would be no cure. The only way to prevent it is to put the person in quarantine and to give the person the best medical help possible.
Did quarantining of black plague victims reduce fatalities in the middle ages?
There were no time to quarantine them. Moreover, to stay quarantined wouldn't save their lives, nor this action would avoid that the plague would continue spreading.
Why did Venice have a quarantine law?
Officials realized that the plague was carried by rats aboard ships so they forced the merchant vessels to remain off shore for 40 days, in Italian quaranto means 40 and hence the word quarantine.
What was the most common form of the plague?
Plague was most commonly transmitted by fleas and rats.
What methods were people using to ward off the plague?
Some of the strategies that were used to prevent people from having plague included quarantine and the use of separate hygiene facilities. People with plague could not use the same public baths with the population that was not infected.
How people tried to keep the plague from spreading?
Usually they gathered the bodies of the dead and burned them. They also destroyed anything that was infected by the plague, like animals, crop, etc. Some even quarantine or isolate the infected area for certain amounts of time or at least until the plague lessens.
How do you treat the plague with medicines?
Antibiotics are very effective when administered early on.
What was the number one effective method that the city of London do to eradicate the plague?
The Bubonic Plague of 1665 was eradicated by the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Where is plague most likely to be found?
plague most likely to be found in Asia, America, Africa
