Black Death (Plagues)

. One disease bubonic plague,wiped out 1/3 of Eurpoe's population between 1347 and 1351.Called the black death ,it was spread by fleas that were living on rats that thrived in the unsanitary towns.

England and Ireland

Not true, there is a debate going on between the traditionalists who say it started in Central Asia and some who say it started in Africa and spread to Central Asia. Whatever the argument, it spread from Central Asia to the Crimea, from there to Sicily and Europe.

No cure has been found.

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Black death, also known as Plague can be treated successfully with antibiotics like streptomycin, gentamicin, doxycycline, or ciprofloxacin. Prompt treatment is needed or the antibiotics are not as effective.

The bubonic plague is the most commonly proposed explanation for the black death. Others dispute this theory and think it is more likely a form of anthrax or a variety of Ebola or typhus or a combination of these , maybe along with smallpox.

The bubonic plague theory indicates the disease was spread by fleas carried by rats.

By the huge numbers of its victims in a short time, and the great difficulty the population had in avoiding it.

people lost their faith on church. After pandemic they were nit influenced by church.

The Black Death was a massive plague, named: The Bubonic Plague; which spread through Britain and the rest of Europe in the mid 14th century, killing nearly half of the population; including farm animals, like: sheep, cows and chickens.

From the start to the end of the Black Death, the population decreased by around 1.8 million people. Due to minimal pay, lack of hygiene and nutrition, peasants especially had a tough time defending against the spread of the infectious disease.

Vinegar and water treatment - If a person gets the disease, they must be put to bed. They should be washed with vinegar and rose water. Lancing the buboes - The swellings associated with the Black Death should be cut open to allow the disease to leave the body. A mixture of tree resin, roots of white lilies and dried human excrement should be applied to the places where the body has been cut open. Bleeding - The disease must be in the blood. The veins leading to the heart should be cut open. This will allow the disease to leave the body. An ointment made of clay and violets should be applied to the place where the cuts have been made. Diet - We should not eat food that goes off easily and smells badly such as meat, cheese and fish. Instead we should eat bread, fruit and vegetables. Sanitation - The streets should be cleaned of all human and animal waste. It should be taken by a cart to a field outside of the village and burnt. All bodies should be buried in deep pits outside of the village and their clothes should also be burnt. Pestilence medicine -Roast the shells of newly laid eggs. Ground the roasted shells into a powder. Chop up the leaves and petals of marigold flowers. Put the egg shells and marigolds into a pot of good ale. Add treacle and warm over a fire. The patient should drink this mixture every morning and night. Witch Craft - Place a live hen next to the swelling to draw out the pestilence from the body. To aid recovery you should drink a glass of your own urine twice a day.

How do you get it? You get primary pneumonic plague when you inhale plague bacteria from an infected person or animal. You usually have to be in direct or close contact with the ill person or animal. You get secondary pneumonic plague if you have untreated bubonic or septicemic plague that spreads to your lungs. What are the symptoms? Symptoms usually develop within 1 to 3 days after you are exposed to airborne droplets of plague bacteria. Pneumonia begins quickly, with shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, and sometimes bloody or watery sputum. Other symptoms include fever, headache, and weakness. Is it contagious?Pneumonic plague is contagious. If someone has pneumonic plague and coughs, droplets containing Y. pestis bacteria from their lungs are released into the air. An uninfected person can then develop pneumonic plague by breathing in those droplets. Y. pestis is found in animals throughout the world, most commonly in rats but occasionally in other wild animals, such as prairie dogs. Most cases of human plague are caused by bites of infected animals or the infected fleas that feed on them. In almost all cases, only the pneumonic form of plague (see Forms of Plague) can be passed from person to person. A health care provider can diagnose plague by doing laboratory tests on blood or sputum, or on fluid from a lymph node. When plague is suspected and diagnosed early, a health care provider can prescribe specific antibiotics (generally streptomycin or gentamycin). Certain other antibiotics are also effective. Left untreated, bubonic plague bacteria can quickly multiply in the bloodstream, causing septicemic plague, or even progress to the lungs, causing pneumonic plague.

Many things such as hanging a dead toad round your neck, lucky charms, putting a recently killed pigeon on the wounds, and smoking was thought to decrease the likelyhood of getting the plague.

Bodies where collected in the streets and taken to a grave yard. If to many people died in the plague bodies would be buried together. hope I helped :)

other a 1/3 of Europe

After the initial shock of losing all their families and loved ones, they picked themselves up and got back to living. They remarried, had new families, were able to have an abundant harvest and were generally healthier than they had been previously. They took over abandoned farms and houses and had access to such items as fruit and livestock that had previously been denied them.

Mostly, if they caught it, they died.

Others were displaced, moving to areas they hoped were free of the plague.

Many were ostracised for displaying symptoms which might be construed as plague, and died of exposure and starvation.

Children were abandoned when their parents died of the disease and left to die themselves, since few good but frightened citizens would take them in.

Hygiene practices were largely unknown, and those who endeavoured to treat the sick, or to explain that washing was good and the privy should be sited well away from the well risked, if they were wise old women, to be suspected of being witches.

There were 35 plagues recorded in the UK between 1348 and 1665. The Black Death reached the UK in the summer of 1348, on the South Coast in August or thereabouts. Over the next two years, deaths may have reached 2 million.

In 1665 the Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death came from the East, possily China, once again thousands died. The plague was finally brought under control when in 1666 the Great Fire of London burned down most areas affected

The cure was genetic selection, and improvements in sanitation.

After a period of time the black plague had eliminated a vast amount of the European population, and the survivors with better genetics to handle the infection successfully reproduced. Similarly, this same natural selection is occurring in Africa with HIV. The is a protein deficiency that some humans posses that causes immunity to HIV (improper bonding of some sort). Another example is seen with Malaria and humans with partially sickeled cells were immune, and became vast in population.

There were also medical breakthroughs that came through were doctors began to realize the nature of disease, and began to improve methods, and sanitation. (Washing the hands, cover the mouth, removing the dead from public, etc..).

You have to understand how dirty the cities and towns were at this time. People did not have any sort of indoor plumbing and threw the contents of their "chamber pots" into the streets each morning. They had absolutely no idea of how diseases were spread nor did they have any treatments for them. What they had were just superstitions. Also many people were not immune to each round of the plague and the microbe passed rapidly until it "ran out" of victims. In many parts of the world as many as 50% died. Imagine all those bodies lying in the streets and no one to bury them.

Reason is very simple! People fled to the next towns to run away from the disease. Some of them were in incubation period and carried the disease to next towns. The same thing was repeated again and again in geometric proportion.

Yes, some parts of China were affected but not as much as Europe.

Many people were angry and bitter, and blamed the Church – some historians think this helped the growth of the new 'Lollard' religion in the 15th century. There was a great shortage of workers, and when Parliament passed laws to stop wages rising, poor people became very angry – some historians think this helped to cause the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

One form of Bubonic Plague DOES cause skin discoloration- very dark purple that is almost black. Caused by blood coagulating under the skin, fingers, hands, etc. I suppose that "Purple Death" did not sound the same.

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The Bubonic Plague. However, this wasn't the most devastating to Europeans in the 14th century. The Bubonic Plague spawned a new disease, the Black Death, which was the true killer.