Causes Of The Bubonic Plague

It is the year of 1340, October 25th.(2) The Black Plague has spread to through my city in Italy. It started in the city of Kaffa, coming from the dead sailors.(4) I fear for my life that my family stay away from whatever is the cause of the bubonic plague. So far, I’ve heard that the infected have giant buboes on their bodies.(1) I heard there is a second plague, dear lord, save us. I believe it may be the rats and the fleas, but not a soul listens to my words.(3) The all think that God has sent

physicians explained the disease by saying that Jupiter soaked up evil vapors from Earth and Mars ignited them, spreading the evil through the air.(11)The infected to be those who were poor or already ill.(10)The plague still is here and infects several thousand people every day.(10) C.The bubonic plague

the Bubonic Plague spread at a fast and furious rate. Within five years, 20 million people which is about one-third of Europe's population were killed. No was prepared for the arrival of the Black Death. “In men and women alike,” the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio wrote, “at the beginning of the malady, certain swellings, either on the groin or under the armpits…waxed to the bigness of a common apple, others to the size of an egg, some more and some less, and these the vulgar named plague-boils"(History

of the bubonic plague, Its first out of three appearances. The bubonic plague is also known as The Black Death plague because of the symptom, gangrene, which cause blackness of the extremities. The bubonic plague is an infectious-bacterial disease which classifies as proteobacterial, the pathogen Yersinia pestis is responsible for causing the bubonic plague as well as pneumonic and specticemic, Yersinia pathogen is a gram negative, rod shaped and non-spore forming bacteria. The bubonic plague is the

Bubonic plague is one of the oldest and most devastating plagues in human history (Eckenrode). The plague was devastating due to the plague killing 17,000 people (almost 20% of the city population) in London, 1665 (Scogna). Judging by the transmission, the symptoms, and the treatment, one can tell that the plague was horrific. The bubonic plague is a highly infectious disease that affects the lungs and lymph nodes. The plague is caused by a gram-negative, facultative anaerobe bacterial species called

The Bubonic Plague Introduction Plague, was a term that was applied in the Middle Ages to all fatal epidemic diseases, but now it is only applied to an acute, infectious, contagious disease of rodents and humans, caused by a short, thin, gram-negative bacillus. In humans, plague occurs in three forms: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague. The best known form is the bubonic plague and it is named after buboes, or enlarged, inflamed lymph nodes, which are characteristics

outbreaks in history was the plague outbreak which peaked in 1346 to 1353, in Europe, commonly known as the Black Death. This plague outbreak was extremely deadly and killed 30-60% of the European population at the time of the outbreak. The outbreak is commonly believed to have been caused by the bubonic plague, but modern evidence suggests that the Black Death was caused by pneumonic plague, a much more contagious and deadly infection. The Black Death was the second major plague outbreak in history, the

in the water of human progress. And though illnesses have been numerous, only two diseases have truly affected entire civilizations, ravaging the culture and lifestyle of the peoples, and escalating to epidemical heights. The two scourges are bubonic plague, which influenced Europe during the 1300’s, and smallpox, which impacted Mesoamerica and the Native Americans from the 1500’s to the 1900’s. To understand how these sicknesses were so altering to their related societies, one must understand the

The Plague and the Yersinia Pestis Bacteria Introduction: The bacteria Yersinia Pestis is the cause of the black plague. Y. Pestis was discovered by Alexandre Yersin in 1849. The plague was the cause of one of the world's most horrific epidemics in the entire world. The plague is an infectious disease that first appeared in 1347 in China and made its way to Asia and then the Black Sea. The Black Plague has caused death to about 75 million lives. The plague is a deadly bacterial infection that can

The Plague is an infectious disease caused by a strain of bacteria called Yersinia pestis. These bacteria are mainly present in rodents, particularly rats, and the fleas that feed on them. Other animals and humans usually contract the bacteria from rodents or flea bites or by eating an infected animal. Bubonic plague infects your lymphatic system (the immune system), initiating inflammation. If left untreated, it can move into the blood and cause the septicemic plague, or it can move to the lungs