What happens when you get the black death?

Answer 1

The Bubonic Plague was the most commonly seen form of the Black Death. The mortality rate was 30-75%. The symptoms were enlarged and inflamed lymph nodes (around arm pits, neck and groin). The term 'bubonic' refers to the characteristic bubo or enlarged lymphatic gland. Victims were subject to headaches, nausea, aching joints, fever of 101-105 degrees, vomiting, and a general feeling of illness. Symptoms took from 1-7 days to appear. from:http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/Black.html

What was it like for a victim of the plague?

It started with a headache. Then chills and fever, which left him exhausted and prostrate. Maybe he experienced nausea, vomiting, Back pain, soreness in his arms and legs. Perhaps bright light was too bright to stand.

Within a day or two, the swellings appeared. They were hard, painful, burning lumps on his neck, under his arms, on his inner thighs. Soon they turned black, split open, and began to ooze pus and blood. They may have grown to the size of an orange.

Maybe he recovered. It was possible to recover. But more than likely, death would come quickly. Yet... perhaps not quickly enough. Because after the lumps appeared he would start to bleed internally. There would be blood in his urine, blood in his stool, and blood puddling under his skin, resulting in black boils and spots all over his body. Everything that came out of his body smelled utterly revolting. He would suffer great pain before he breathed his last. And he would die barely a week after he first contracted the disease. from:http://historymedren.about.com/od/theblackdeath/a/death_defined.htm

Answer 2

Firstly, you would receive a headache, followed by fever and sickness. You would then experience back, arm or leg pain. After just a couple of days, swellings would appear, called buboes, derived from the term 'bubonic plague'. They would soon darken and split open, letting out pus and blood. A lot of people died at this stage. Lastly was internal bleeding, and blood would come out in the victims urine and stool and underneath the skin creating more spots and boils. Seven in ten died within a week.

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Answer 3

Most narratives today about the symptoms of the Black Death are usually different from each other or inaccurate. The three types of plague, bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic had similar symptoms but not the same, since the different plagues attacked different parts of the body. The bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, the septicemic plague attacks the blood, and the pneumonic plague attacks the lungs. The constant symptoms were acute fever, the vomiting of blood, joint and body pain, and death. Victims usually die within two weeks. A major symptom in the bubonic plague are the huge black buboes. Buboes are like bumps that can be the size of a Golf ball to the size of an orange. They happen when the lymph nodes swell, and they are usually present in the armpits, groin, and neck, where there are the most lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are organs that filter blood. When the buboes open, they bleed and pus oozes out. They kept on expanding until they burst, which made a victim die. This took about three to five days. The mortality rate was from thirty to seventy five percent. A major symptom in pneumonic plague is the coughing. Since the bacterium attacks the lungs, the victims cough until they cough blood and even dead lung tissue. The victim would most likely die within one to seven days after the symptoms appear. The mortality rate for the pneumonic plague was ninety to ninety five percent. The major symptom in the septicemic plague was the organ failure. Since the bacterium affected the blood, the blood spreads around to all the organs, so it causes organ failure. The victim usually died the day the symptoms appeared, and the mortality rate was almost one hundred percent. This is reasonable because there even is no treatment for the septicemic plague today.

Answer 4

Unless you were extremely fortunate, you died.

Answer 5

You would start to get big swollen lumps around your groin and armpits, and the you would start to get sicker and sicker. Unfortunately, by about the fifth day you would be dead.

Answer 6

Well you would get HUGE bumps on the skin, nausea, rash, Massive headaches, breathing problems e.t.c.

Answer 7

Black Death led to millions of death. This lead to revolts and crimes against kings.

Answer 8

Many people ran to the country side. Muslims didn't do anything as they saw this as god's will. Others (poor) tried potions.

Answer 9

It eats you from the inside.

Answer 10

Basically, you would die.