Who found the cure to stop the black death?

Answer 1

In 1932, with sulphonamide drugs, there was finally an effective treatment for the plague. Yet, within 50 years, there were reports - persistent, though unconfirmed - that a strain of plague bacillus resistant to all medicinal and control measures had been developed for bacteriological warfare by the US Army.

Answer 2

they never did--sadly.

Oh! Yes they did! In1894 plague erupted in Canton and threatened to devastate Hong Kong. The colonial government of Hong Kong invited two bacteriologists to unlock the mystery of the cause of this disease. Shibasaburo Kitasato from Japan was clearly favoured by the governor of Hong Kong and was provided with every facility he desired. In contrast, the Swiss-born Alexandre Yersin was marginalised and ended up working in a shack in the grounds of one of the hospitals. Within a few days of each other, both Kitasato and Yersin independently announced the isolation of the plague bacillus. Although Kitasato was initially credited with the discovery, it is now apparent that his claim was incorrect. The organism described by the methodical Yersin fits the description of what we now know as Yersinia pestis. Nonetheless, recognition for this achievement is still occasionally jointly awarded to both Kitasato and Yersin, and it was only in the 1960s that the genus Yersinia was named after Yersin.

Answer 3

The Black Death was an outbreak of Bubonic Plague that ravaged Europe from 1347 to about 1352.

The pathogen for the bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin. There was still no known cure, but at least there was a known cause.

During the 20th century, numbers of antibiotics were discovered, and many of these proved to be effective in treating the bubonic plague. They included the following:

• Streptomycin, first isolated on October 19, 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, at Rutgers University.
• The tetracyclines, a group of antibiotics that were discovered as natural products by Benjamin Minge Duggar, at Lederle Laboratories, beginning in 1945.
• Chloramphenicol, isolated by David Gottlieb, and introduced into clinical practice in 1949

These medicines are all of general purpose, and I do not have the dates they were first discovered to be effective against the plague. Since the 1940s, other cures have been developed.

Answer 4

The Black Death was the contemporary name given to Bubonic Plague.

It was transmitted by rodent borne fleas.

No cure was found.

The epidemic had to run it's course.

The survivors developed an immunity which they passed to their children.

However, it must be noted, there were several outbreaks of the disease

over a span of two or three hundred years.

Modern sanitation methods helped lead to the curtailment of the disease.

Answer 5

Whoever found antibiotics. =)