James L. Myers Professor Fike World Civilizations 22 July 2012 The Black Death: The Bubonic Plaque of 1300-1400. The Bubonic Plaque, also known as the Black Death has had a profound effect on human history since the ancient times. The Black Death is a highly contagious disease that causes death within one to three days of contracting it, depending on which type a person has. It can be air born or can spread to humans through fleas that have bitten black rats that are infected with the Bubonic Plaque. When a human comes in contact with the fleas and rats that are infected and are bitten by these infected animals, they also become infected.
First, it starts in unsanitary conditions where it can spread by fleas, who are carriers of the disease. It starts when they bite an infected rat. The bacteria then blocks their digestive system, making them regurgitate the infected blood into a human when the bite. Second, in crowded, unsanitary urban areas where the disease is widespread, it can be passed from man to man through microscopic drops of saliva when a person coughs or sneezes. This leads to the before mentioning lung infection.
The Bubonic Plague Today’s Date: 4/14/06 Due Date: 4/17/06 The Bubonic Plague is a medical term. It is actually an organism that fights its way into your bloodstream. This organism is a bacillus, known scientifically as Yersina pestis. Back in the middle ages, many people, including doctors, thought that bad vapors or clouds of gas caused this plague. This was not true.
Black Death is also known as the Bubonic Plague from a bacterium scientifically named “Y. Pestis”, that is found in fleas. These fleas fed on rats, which facilitated their spread between Asia and Europe, the fleas fed on people along the places of their journeys causing infection (Peschke 2007). Black Death reduced the population of Europe by a staggering s amount, It is estimated that approximately 20 million people across Europe were wiped out. (Peschke 2007) In European society the Church was a symbol of authority and power; local clergymen were considered representatives of the Pope and God himself.
The first conclusion mainly has to do with urban myths about the curse. At the entrance of the tomb was an inscription that was translated and said “Death Shall Come on Swift Wings to Him Who Disturbs the Peace of the King”. The legend says that anyone who opened the king’s tomb will suffer the curse of the mummy. And then begins a set of unfortunate circumstances that affect the men who were the first to enter the tomb. A few of the men became sick, a few others even died.
Plague It is little surprise that the plague was the most dreaded disease of Shakespeare's time. Carried by fleas living on the fur of rats, the plague swept through London in 1563, 1578-9, 1582, 1592-3, and 1603 (Singman, 52). The outbreaks in 1563 and 1603 were the most ferocious, each wiping out over one quarter of London's population. Lucky Elizabethans would contract the basic bubonic plague with their odds of survival around fifty percent. Symptoms would include red, grossly inflamed and swollen lymph nodes, called buboes (hence the name bubonic), high fever, delirium, and convulsions.
The Black Death had a huge impact on all aspects of Medieval society. The peak of the Black Death resulted in a huge population loss for the city of London, and all over the world. Treatments and theories about the causes of the plague were prevalent in many aspects of life. Initially many believed plagues to be the result of evil spirits. For this reason, people would often huddle together to keep the spirits away.
In the Masque Of The Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe tells us about Prince Prospero, a man trying to escape death by secluding himself in his castle along with a thousand of his friends, while the deadly disease is ravaging his dominions. The setting is very crucial in the story because it affects each action happening. Every part of the setting makes the characters act the way they do. If the Plague wasn't an aspect of the setting of the story, Prince Prospero might not have had hosted the masquerade ball, his friends wouldn’t be isolated with him in hopes of avoiding sickness, and the rest of the population wouldn't be dying. The Plague, also known as the black death, was one of the most fatal pandemics to ever happen.
The rodents in Asia had fleas and when fleas bit the animal that was carrying the disease the animal became infected. The fleas also produced larva in the fur which also had the bacteria called Pasteurella pestia. Once the rodents’ population decreased, the fleas went on to other animals this including humans. Some of the animals were often used for furs to
The disease spread from nation to nation, killing millions of people and seriously affecting their lives especially Britain. It is thought to be one of the most devastating plagues in human history. It is thought to have begun in the mid 1340’s in China, caused by dirty rodents who had infected fleas. The fleas travelled through Asia and lived on Rats and all sorts of other creatures. Some of these creatures became passengers on merchant ships that sailed to Europe.