Bubonic plague

Essays 3. The bubonic plague was a devastating disease that rapidly swept across Europe. Also known as the Black Death, the plague spread from port to port and started to wipe out entire civilizations. All of Europe was eventually contaminated, with over two-thirds of the population dieing to the infectious disease. Believed to have started in 1346 when the Mongol armies overtook the Genoese trading outpost of Caffa on the Black Sea, over half the soldiers on the boat returned dead. The quickness

on Witch Persecutions and Trials – Part One was the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague was also referred to as the “Black Death” that occurred in the 14 century and killed 34 million Europeans, which was roughly one-third of the population. However, the Bubonic Plague did not only devastate Europe, but Asian and the Middle East as well for over 75 million people worldwide succumbed to the Black Death. Despite the fact that the Bubonic Plague originated in the 14th century it kept reoccurring every

matter such as the Bubonic Plague strikes in a world unexposed to the current technology and information citizens tend to create false cures and treatments. These treatments are highly dangerous and unhygienic. A common treatment used was bloodletting, which was the act of extracting blood from a patient to remove the disease. Similar to bloodletting was boil-lancing which is when you take a knife to slice the buboes until they bursted. Buboes were a symptom of the Bubonic Plague described as a swollen

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

Bubonic Plague Rough Draft I chose this bacteria because we learned about it last year in Social Studies. I already had some knowledge about the bacteria so it stood out to me when I tried to think of a cell/bacteria/virus/ to write about. One thing I found interesting about the bubonic Plague was that i thought it was a virus but I saw something that said to use antibiotics if you get infected. I thought that was weird since antibiotics kill living things and viruses aren’t living, so I looked

In the 1300s the Bubonic Plague first entered Europe from Asian trade routes which resulted in millions of deaths from infection . The bubonic plague was so devastating to Europe because the disease was very contagious and no known medicine or medical advice given by doctors would help relieve the sick which caused Europe to decline in many aspects. The Bubonic plague was said to bypass some and affect others, some victims of the plague were children and many of them died the few that managed

The Plague that struck Europe and Asia in the 14th century was probably the most devastating disease or natural disaster the world ever faced. The Bubonic Plague or Black Death killed an estimated 25 million people from 1347 to 1352 in Europe which accounted for one third of Europe’s population.??-1 It is believed to have started in Asia and then spread to Europe. The Bubonic Plague was not just limited to this period in time. It would reappear through the centuries including the Great Plague

In the 14th century the Black Death engulfed Europe killing an estimated 50 million people. The pandemic is considered extraordinary because it did so in a matter of months. This disease was carried by fleas, the Bubonic Plague is caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, found mainly in rodents, in this case in rats, and the fleas that feed on them. The rapid spread is mostly blamed on this because rats were common.“Historians and physicians alike have puzzled over this issue and, though many

the deadliest plagues there's been, in the mid 14th century the plague spread around the world traveling from china to Europe, this plague was responsible for the death of more than one-third of the population of Europe and the middle east. At this time there were a lot of Christians and Muslims at this time and places it affected both very badly but they reacted to the plague very differently.The black death had a lot of names some include ‘The Great Pestilence’, the great plague and the black death

http://ponderosa-pine.uoregon.edu/students/Janis/menu.html Abstract Bubonic plague has had a major impact on the history of the world. Caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, and transmitted by fleas often found on rats, bubonic plague has killed over 50 million people over the centuries. Burrowing rodent populations across the world keep the disease present in the world today. Outbreaks, though often small, still occur in many places. The use of antibiotics and increased scientific knowledge