Black Death (Plagues)

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It is transmitted between animals and humans by the bite of infected fleas, direct contact, inhalation and rarely, ingestion of infective materials. I heard from my gf that I am talking on [dream marriage] that small mice or insects might transmit it too.

The swine flu outbreak in humans in 1976 at Fort Dix, New Jersey involved four soldiers who were previously healthy but contracted the virus. They developed pneumonia, diagnosed by X-ray, with other symptoms of the flu. One died as a result. The virus was thought to have circulated approximately a month in the close quarters of the group in basic training but not outside the group, then it disappeared.

The people in 1348 thought that God washing them for their sins and that is why people started to whip themselves because they thought that is God saw them causing self inflicted pain then he would take away the terrible disease.

1. Join weeping processions of penitents led by priests, whipping yourself and praying for forgiveness

2. Carry magic amulets, or reciting charms

3. Wash with herb-scented vinegar

4. Sniff a nosebag filled with herbs and pleasant-smelling crushed flowers

5. Breath in the stench of human waste

6. Attach leeches to key-veins to "bleed" the patient

7. Remove what was thought to be "bad" blood by cutting buboes and covering them with a herbal ointment

8. Kill all the dogs and cats in the town

9. Toss aromatic powders onto a fire and burn lighted tapers

10. Drink a potion of ten-years-old treacle, herbs and metallic powders

Actually none of these were cures.

Some people tried not to catch the black death by staying home and away from other humans. The Pope at the time of the black death spent hours sitting down between two hot fires trying to scare away the "evil spirits" that gave people the black death.

scientist dont really no but they are saying that it was carried by rats,lice,ticks,and animal dropping.they believe it was a form oof the bubonic plague.

Since many Plague sufferers were quarantined in their homes, their families were likely to get contract it also. About 75% - 80 % of those who got the Plague died from it, which was obviously difficult for the family of the victims.

It was Spread by Fleas

The Greek City that controlled the trade routes between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea was Troy. The city was founded in 3000 BC and abandoned in 500 AD.

25 percent to 33 percent of the population died

1. Rubbing a dead frog on your buboes (lumps on armpit, groin or neck)

2. Rubbing half of a pigeon on your buboes

3.Pop your buboes

sorry that's all i can remember I will be back in a second to find more.

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At first, they tried to do proper burials but thousands upon thousands died and that was no longer possible. Giovanni Boccaccio, a writer who lived through the black plague wrote, "Dead bodies filled every corner. Most of them were treated in the same manner by the survivors, who were more concerned to get rid of their rotting bodies than moved by charity towards the dead. With the aid of porters, if they could get them, they carted the bodies out of the houses and laid them at the door; where every morning quantities of the dead may be seen."

They also used the bodies for military tactics-yes they used dead bodies-Tartars when attacking Italian merchants inside Caffa, loaded their catapults with the bodies of plague victims and hurled them into the city. You can bet that the Tartars won that battle. However, the Italian merchants panicked, abandonded the city and fled on rat-infested ships straight to Europe.

Body temperature drops below approximately 32 °C (89.6 °F). Shivering usually stops.[1][2] Difficulty speaking, sluggish thinking, and amnesia start to appear; inability to use hands and stumbling is also usually present. Cellular metabolic processes shut down. Below 30 °C (86.0 °F), the exposed skin becomes blue and puffy, muscle coordination becomes very poor, walking becomes almost impossible, and the victim exhibits incoherent/irrational behavior including terminal burrowing or even a stupor. Pulse and respiration rates decrease significantly, but fast heart rates (ventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation) can occur. Major organs fail. Clinical death occurs. Because of decreased cellular activity in stage 3 hypothermia, the body will actually take longer to undergo brain death.

The plague did more than just devastate the medieval population; it caused a substantial change in economy and society in all areas of the world.

Well in Europe alone it killed around 25 million people, and cut the population by a third. In England the population dropped by 75%. The ramifications of this were huge, the feudal system introduced by the Norman on their invasion of England was stripped of power as peasants were now asking for payment because the demand for workers in agriculture. Aswell as this the Black Death (which was a combination of both the bubonic plague and pneumonic plague) is said to have been an indirect cause of the Peasants revolt in 1381. The government changed the wages of the peasants to those they were receiving before the Black Death (the Statute of Labours act 1351.) Hope this helps.

The black plague started in 1348 and was caused by flees carried by rats and spread through out Europe, the black plague killed 30-60% of the population. The disease could be caught just by breathing the air around the infected people.

The previous answer (quoted below) makes absolutely no sense. For one, the plague was caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis), NOT a virus. So it does not enter the body in the same way that a virus does. Get your facts straight.

Secondly, even if someone does carry a mutation to a virus, that mutation infers immunity only to that one virus, and only so long as that virus does not acquire an alternative mode of entry. All viruses rapidly evolve, and HIV has been one of the most elusive due to its fast rate of mutation/evolution, so it is not wise to push your luck living a high risk lifestyle (and possibly passing the virus on to countless others). That's just plain ignorant.

If someone really knows the answer to this question, I am also interested.

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"There was ( and still is ! ) a special strain of DNA that a certain percentage of Europeans had that is mutated in such a way that VIRUSES in particular cannot bond with their T cells or any blood cells. Therefore the virus could never replicate. I will let everyone in on a special piece of information relating to this question: If you have an ancestor that survived the Black Death, you may be one of the 3% of European/ Mediterainian descendants that are NOW COMPLETELY IMMUNE to another virus, a modern age plague known as HIV?AIDS. There have been a series of genetic and scientific tests in the past decade to determine the possibility of this theory, I was a DNA donor for this research along with my mother. I have immunity to HIV and so does my mother. I was chosen for testing because my father was an I.V. heroin addict and he contracted HIV early in my parents marriage. My mother was 9 weeks pregnant with me when my father was diagnosed. They continued to have unprotected sex throughout the pregnancy as well as after, and I have had 68 HIV/AIDS tests in my lifetime all resulting negative. My mother has had atleast 40 herself and her results were the same. My father died in September 1989 from liver failure due to full blown AIDS."

Poor sanitation, lack of broad spectrum (or any) antibiotics, and lack of a basic idea of airborne pathogens. Also, the cities were crowded, spreading the disease much more rapidly than it spread in rural farming areas.

People were scared and they had no idea what to do. The doctors were telling them it would be best to close all your windows so the infected air can't get in. It turns out the way to avoid it was to do exactly the opposite. People needed fresh air.

you have the same question i do in social studies

I hope this is the answer you are searching for. I found it in wikipedia under the heading of Black Death.

The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population, reducing the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. This has been seen as creating a series of religious, social and economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of European history. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover. The plague returned at various times, resulting in a larger number of deaths, until it left Europe in the 19th century.

Symptoms of the Black Plague included fever, pain, chills, buboes or swellings of the lymph nodes often in the groin, and seizures. Respiratory difficulties were common, along with lethargy. Some died within hours of having the symptoms but it generally took 2 to 7 days. Sometimes fingers and toes turned black and rotted. Many had rash-like black spots which may have been from the flea bites that spread the plague. The victims would vomit blood.

It didnt. Doctors had no hope and tried experimenting by recomending bathing in urine, rubing butter over your body, holding chickens under your armpits, and things liket that. To keep it from spreading, people bricked up houses that were said to have the black death, even if people were still inside.