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What is difference between pneumonic and bubonic plague?
Bubonic and septicemic plague are two of the three types of plague. The main difference between the two is that the bubonic plague cause extreme infection and swelling of the lymph nodes while the septicemic plague cause the body's clotting mechanism to stop.
How did the bubonic plague impact the power of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe?
The bubonic plague weakened the power of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe by causing a decline in the number of clergy members and a loss of faith among the population due to the church's inability to stop the spread of the disease. This led to a decrease in the church's influence and authority during the outbreak.
What will people do to stop black death from happening again?
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.
Was the bubonic plague caused by rat excrement?
No. Bubonic plague is transmitted by fleas carried by infected rats or people. The pathogen is typically carried by rodents. In the case of the waves of plague that ravaged Europe and the Mid-East in the middle ages, it was carried by rats and other infected humans.The disease you may be confusing bubonic plague with could be cholera which is transmitted by contamination of water by an infected person's feces.Answer:No, it was caused by rats, but not their excrete. the bubonic plague and pneumonic plague were started by rats who jumped off a ship that had come from countries infected with the plague. It wasn't actually the rats that started it, either. fleas travelled in the dirty hairs of the rats and then flourished in the grime and unhygienic areas near London. The plague spread quickly throughout England and Ireland, and only a small part of Scotland was not affected. 1 in 3 people died, altogether. Many towns and villages were quarantined to stop the plague spreading.
How did people attempt the plague from spreading?
Since it was not commonly known that bubonic plague was carried by the rat flea, it was generally assumed to be a supernatural affliction. Healers tried to ward off the plague by wearing masks and reciting incantations. The effectiveness of these methods in unknown but severely doubted. People killed all the rats and pets. They buried dead bodies deep and burnt everything.
What did they kill off to stop the plague spreading?
They did not know that plague was spread by vermin, so the did not kill off anything.
What animal helped stop the Plague?
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.
What did sanitation have to do with the spread of the bubonic plague?
The disease spread by fleas being carried around on rats. In the filth and the warmth of the summer heat, the rotting rubbish is a perfect place for bacteria to breed. People living in the infected area had to sanitise in order to try and prevent the disease from spreading. When people died from the plauge, they hardley every let anyone see the deceased to try and stop the spread.
What are the cures for the plague?
The small number of cases of plague that occur today are treated with antibiotics.There was no cure for it the only treatment was for them to be quarentined so they could stop the spread.
Why did the theaters periodically close in 1565?
There was a particularly nasty outbreak of the plague in London at that time.
When was the bubonic plague wiped out?
Neither medicine nor hygiene were adequate to stop the disease, so it had to burn itself out. Pretty much everyone who didn't have natural immunity to the plague died, leaving mostly those who were immune. Outbreaks began in Mongolia in 1330 and spread quickly to China and Italy and then to the rest of Europe and parts of Asia. Outbreaks in Europe went on until around the 1720s. Those in Asia continued until the early 1900s. The disease is not extinct and still resurfaces at times where hygeine is poor. It's carried by rats and the fleas that live on them.
What disease spread while William Shakespeare London theatre was closed?
The plague spread through London and forced theatres to close to stop more people becoming infected.
