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While Tuberculosis is a serious, contagious, and potentially deadly disease if left untreated. In is not as serious as the black death, which is commonly believed to have been a strain of Y. pestis bacteria. Tuberculosis, even when transmitted, often results in a latent, asymptomatic form that does not lead to active infection, and among the actively infected the progress of the disease is much slower than plague.
Y. pestis, in comparison, which causes bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague, can kill up to two of every three infected without treatment and can cause death with days. The major outbreaks of plague are among the worst pandemics in human history.
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Which form of the black death was most deadly?
The Plague was the most deadly because it could kill people within days of them contracting the disease.
Why is the black death called the black death did it affect only African-Americans?
The black death refers to the bubonic plague, an epidemic initially thought to be carried by rats, but actually traced to the fleas on the rats. The black plague / black death was most destructive in Europe during the middle ages, so few of the victims likely were black. The bubonic plague has been found in America from time to time and is usually associated with rats or squirrels. The disease does not discriminate. It is equally deadly to all races. It was called 'black death' because of the darkening of the skin shortly before death. The skin would become necrotic and develop lenticulae (black dots or splotches).
When did the black death reach Europe?
Black death affected Europe from about 1340 onwards. It killed large population of Europe, almost 100 million people died of this deadly disease. It reduced worlds population from 450 million to 350 million.
What diseases were there at the Rhode Island colony?
Black Pox or Small Pox Camp Fever or Typhus Chin Cough or Whooping Cough Consumption or Tuberculosis Croup Pneumonia Influenza Black Plague or Black Death or Bubonic Plague Putrid Fever American Plague Ague or Malarial Fever Typhoid Dengue Meningitis
Where did the black death arrive?
The black death started around 1437 in Europe.
How deadly is The Black Death?
1/3 of the population died.
What is one deadly plague?
bubonic plague or the black death
What is the red death that plagued the Poe women?
The "red death" that plagued the Poe women is believed to refer to tuberculosis, a common and deadly disease during Edgar Allan Poe's time. Poe's mother, Eliza Poe, and his wife, Virginia Poe, both died from tuberculosis.
What is the death toll for having tuberculosis in Africa?
What is the tuberculosis death toll in africa
How did the Black Death effect children's games?
because the plague was so deadly
Which form of the black death was most deadly?
The Plague was the most deadly because it could kill people within days of them contracting the disease.
What are similarities between the African Slave trade and the Black Death?
There are no similarities. The slave trade was a vile thing, but not a deadly disease like the plague or Black Death as it was called.
What disease is TB?
Tuberculosis is a deadly disease of the respritory system that is slightly contagious.
After 1492 deadly diseases carried by European's such as measles tuberculosis and?
small pox
what does Tuberculosis do?
It gives you tuberculosis.
Is tubercolosis a communicable diseases?
Tuberculosis was a deadly disease till the advent of streptomycin in 1947. Then you had very good drugs invented for tuberculosis, one by one till late sixties. The disease became completely curable. But now you have drug resistance noted for tuberculosis also. With HIV infection in hand the problem has complicated with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. In such cases you can have tuberculosis, deadly.
Is the black death as effective now like it was in the dark ages?
No, now we have medicine to cure it but it is still deadly.
