The Black Death swept across Asia and Europe during the middle 1300’s. It began in Central Asia. Ships that were used for trading carried rats. When the people got bitten by the fleas on the rats, the fleas gave them the plague. From these ships, the plague spread throughout Europe.
We know that the climate of Earth began to cool in the 14th century, and perhaps this so-called little Ice Age had something to do with it. Whatever the reason, we know that the outbreak began there and spread outward. While it did go west, it spread in every direction, and the Asian nations suffered as cruelly as anywhere. In China, for example, the population dropped from around 125 million to 90 million over the course of the 14thc.” (Knox, Skip) In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in
It came from the Near East, into the western Mediterranean, then into northern Europe and finally back into Russia. The medical term for the plague that became known as the Black Death is bubonic plague, and it was carried by rats and other rodents. Fleas infest the rodents then move on to humans and infect them, through
1.) Black Death The Black Death was a form of the bubonic plague, named so in recent times because it would cause the skin of a victim to become black in areas of swelling. However, during the duration of the pandemic, it was actually known as the Great Mortality, or the Pestilence. This disease came to Europe between 1328 and 1334 and lasted until around 1351, though several cases were still present after the typical duration of the plague. Though historians aren’t totally certain, they hypothesize that the plague originated in the Gobi desert.
Rodents also act as long term preservers for plague. Any rat bit by an infected flea would spread it to all the other fleas that bite it. This could cause it to spread around really fast. Rodents probably play the biggest roll in spreading plague around. The bubonic plague could also be very hard to detect.
The disease spread like any other thing, it traveled through trade. The plague comes from fleas on rats that carries the disease. The rats first made their way to Europe on boats form China and the plague slowly moved more inland. In 1347 intailin traders brought to plague to Sicily and spred it to Milan and flouence it also made its wayt o middle eastern countries. It makes it way throughout Italy and by 1348 it has hit
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.
The cause that initiated this tremendously, horrible disease was the Xenopsylla cheopis (rat flea) transmitting the bacteria Yersina petis that led to start of this catastrophe. The rat flea survived as a parasite that bit and sucked the blood of its host, including the black rat, which was the principal carrier of the plague (Dunn 8). Researches have concluded that this disease was an unusual and difficult development. One reason being, that the fleas were not attracted to human beings, but to rodents. The disease was carried on even with the death of the infested rat by the rat fleas.
One of the three important points the author made is of The Black Death. The Black Death was a plague called the bubonic plague that was the result of bacillus disease. This plague killed tens of millions of people in the mid 1300s. It started off from rats carrying the disease and coming in contact with humans. The plague started off in china and made its way to Europe, Sweden, and Moscow.
It can be cured through antibiotics (McNeill, W. H.). The plague is a disease of rodents. A human can be affected when bitten by an infected flea that has fed on an infected rodent. The bacteria inside the flea, sticks together to form a plug that blocks its stomach and causes it to begin to starve. The flea then bites a host and continues to feed, even though it is unable to satisfy its