They accused the Jews of trying to destroy the Christians. Some people even believed that the plague was caused by pockets of bad air released by earthquakes or by an unfavorable alignment of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. (Kreis, Steven, 2006. “Satan Triumphant: The Black Death”) People wouldn’t bathe for fear of opening pores and thus allowing the epidemic to spread to themselves, and had poor hygiene in general. Some doctors even thought that bad odors would get rid of the disease so they smeared feces and urine on their patients, which produced the opposite effect, and spread the disease.
These black rats like to live near or in human housing. This highly contagious infection is spread to humans by fleas that are biting the black rats and contracting the infection. The infected flea then bites a human and leaves the infection in the flea bites. When an over populated area of black rats becomes more over populated this can be another cause of the spread of the Black plaque faster. The growth of population in cities and small towns tend to lead to decline in living conditions, thus leading to famine and epidemics causing more cases if the Black Plaque.
The Black Death was on of the most severe epidemics in history. In 1347 A.D., this great plague swept over Europe, ravaging cities and causing widespread hysteria and death. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% – 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 having created 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.
In the bible, we read that black plague was a curse from God to punish for the sins that the infected had committed. When scientist had figured out that, the disease was not a result of sins, or spiritual inadequacy that the devastating illness was caused by bacteria from fleas on rats. Black Death was the most deadly disease that viciously killed millions of people during the middle Ages. In Africa, they believe plenty in witchcraft, and it is sometimes the only explanation as long as no other explanation can be found for any diseases. In West Africa, Buruli ulcer was an infectious disease caused by mycobacterium ulcerous.
This causes an awful disease that spread all over Europe. Once the flea is infected with the rats blood, it affects the human population by attacking their bodies. The symptoms of this horrible plague are high fevers and vomiting of blood. A person’s lymph nodes start to swell up and turn black. The Black Death is called that because of the color of the swelling on the neck.
The Black Plague was caused by a bacteria, Yersinia pestis. It is an intracellular pathogen and lives in the intestines of its host. It causes disease in animals, such as rodents, as well as insects and of course, humans. The primary carrier of this bacteria is the Oriental Rat Flea, which is from China. (“Yersinia pestis”).
This transmitted from fleas that are on the infected rat, which then bites the human giving them the disease as well. (National Geographic, 2001) The implications the disease had on Western Europe were more than just the death by the disease.
Vang 1 Terry Vang Ms. Mackenzie English 9 February 11th, 2011 The Black Plague The Black plague occurred in the mid 1300s and 1400s which was said started in Asia and spreaded to Europe. The plague is an infectious disease caused by a bacteria called Yersinia Pestis. This bacteria is found mainly in rodents, particularly in rats, and in fleas that feed on them. Other animals and humans usually contact the bacteria from rodent or flea bites. The Black Plague was one of the worst natural disaster in history.
This was because the word bubonic came from the word bubo(Plural form:buboes), which is swelling of the lymph nodes. Its was similar looking to a huge blister, and usually appeared under the armpit, in the groin area, or on the neck. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubo) This disease moslty affected rats. this was because fleas lived on infected rats and drank their blood and then would pass the bacteria that cause the plague onto the next rat they bite. But because rats were being killed-off, the next thing for fleas to jump to were humans and other animals.
Many people have different reasons why the plague started, the church said the plague was punishment for sinful ways, but it is also said that the black plague originated in central China in 1333, no one knows how it came to be. As a result to this China used the dead bodies as biological warfare, thus starting the spread of the plague. The plague spread along the silk road and was also said to be spread by “fleas on rats”. Rats were bit by fleas who were infected with the plague. When the fleas had their fill they would hop off the rat and onto their next victim, most likely a human, infecting them with the plague.