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It was very specific on telling how the Black Plague spread and why the fleas became cannibal. It told each little detail of how the fleas contaminated the body with the plague. The book then explained how the plague was slacking up on contamination. It told that sanitation became more popular to the communities which helped keep the rats away. It also told when and how the first infected rats traveled with the bacteria and fleas.
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Twenty-four million was the total death count of the bubonic plague in Europe. One-third of the population died due to the bubonic plague, or Black Death. The Black Death is caused by a bacteria called Yersin bacillus that is commonly found in the stomachs of certain species of fleas. The fleas usually live on small rodents, especially black rats. The Black Plague was likely brought to Europe by fleas on rats that were carried by trading ships.
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In medieval Europe, during this time, the epidemic drastically decreased the population in Europe. It had terrified the hearts of every person in Europe to know that an unexplainable disease, of that magnitude, was out there. The once positive outlook people had on the life of the thirteenth century had perished along with the many lives the plague took along with it. The mystery of the causes of the plague took over five centuries to uncover. Several unjustifiable phenomenon and myths were devised during this period concerning the causes of this disease.
Sailors abroad arrived dead or gravely sick, with mysterious black boils all over them, which gave this disease its name “The Black Death”. Over the next five years, this plague killed one third of Europe’s population, which is about 20 million citizens. It was the first epidemic of the second series of outbreaks of the disease (Gottfried xiii) The Black Death was the greatest catastrophe ever which resulted in great fear, and impacted European society religiously and economically. Black is the metaphorical sense of terrible, and that is exactly was the plague was, a terrible and devastating epidemic linked to rodent and human ecology. This disease varied between Bubonic, Phumonic and Septicaemic plague strains.
Ebony Childress Ms. Presley Hum. 1101 24 Feb 2010 Plagues of the Late Middle Ages In 1347 A.D., a history impacting plague swept over Europe causing cities widespread hysteria and death. The primary culprits in transmitting this disease were Oriental Rat Fleas carried on the back of black rats. There were many efforts taken to prevent the disease but most were not effective. The affects greatly impacted the population and the future ways of life in Europe.