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    nearly a week in three ways the: Bubonic plague, Septicemic plague and the Pneumonic plague; it was a tragedy that totally decreased the population of the UK and more. A description of the spreading of the black plague. The first time the plague came out openly in the world it carried and killed across England in 1348-49. It first travelled across the South part in the Bubonic way, during the summer in 1348.Unfortunately, it turned into the pneumonic plague. Then it hit the very popular London in

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    (MIP-1) The black plague swept through the medieval times causing utter chaos and fear. (SIP-A) The thing everyone had on their minds when the plague hit was death, but what truly was the plague that took everyone by storm ? The plague was a disease that was extremely contagious that spread from person to person as quick as wildfire. (STEWE-1) In Europe of 1347 millions of people were in shock by the visit of the black plague (Konstam 118). The black plague all started when it first rose in the early

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    Hello Everyone, THE PNEUMONIC PLAGUE AS A POSSIBLE BIOWARFARE AGENT What is plaque? This time I would like to discuss an organism which has a potential to be used as a biological agent during warfare or in case of a terrorist attack. Plague has been used as a weapon when Tartar forces catapulted plague-infected dead bodies into the city of Caffa during the Middle Ages (Riedel, 2004). A nonmotile, gram-negative coccobacillus called Yersinia pestis spread by a vector called Xenopsylla cheopis also

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    “The Black Death, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, first exploded in Europe between 1347 and 1351.” (Pappas) It consisted of three different plagues; The Bubonic, Septicemic, and Pneumonic plagues. It was first noticed when Genoese trading ships were docked at the Sicilian port of Messina arriving from the Black Sea. People waiting for the ships to arrive were astonished at the scene left on the ship. A big percentage of the sailors were dead. Others that were still alive, didn’t have much

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    answer those questions. The plague was a nasty disease. Your family would not live without treatment for the plague… There are three different types of plague. Here are the three plague’s are Bubonic Plague, Pneumonic Plague, and Septimic Plague. The bubonic plague is where you will get swellings on the back of your neck and it gave you very bad aching pain. The pneumonic plague would attack the respiratory system, and you would suffer, and then die. The septimic plague would attack the blood stream

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    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

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    pestis is the pathogen responsible for different types of plague such as: septicemic plague, pneumonic plague, and the bubonic plague. The purpose of this paper is to inform about the Bubonic Plague so the information given will focus on this type of plague. The plague itself is transmitted in several ways. One of them being rodents spreading it to other animals by the channels of fleas and soil that has been already contaminated. Bubonic Plague can develop from direct contact with an object that is

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    disease named the Great Plague, The Black Death or just the plague. It travelled from China then through the Middle East and reached pandemic level in England in 1348 and in 1349 it started reducing in England but it lasted until 1353 in other places. It eventually killed 32 million people in Britain and Ireland. There was also an outbreak in 1361 and lasted until around 1364. If you caught the bubonic plague you had a 50% chance to live, if you caught the pneumonic plague you had a 10% chance to

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    The Black Plague, the Great Mortality, and the Pestilence. The disease that most scholars believe struck Europe was "Plague”. “Best known as bubonic plague for the "buboes" (lumps) that formed on the victims' bodies. Bubonic Plague was spread by the fleas who lived on plague-infected rats, and such rats were ubiquitous on trading ships. Plague also took pneumonic. Pneumonic Plague could spread with a sneeze and jump from person to person with terrifying speed and Septicemic Plague which

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    1. The plague spread through Europe in the years 1346 to 1347. 2. The main symptoms of the Bubonic Plague was headaches, chills, high temperature, tiredness, nausea, pain, then it affects the neck and sides of the neck. These swelled up into large bumps called the "buboes". 3. The Pneumonic Plague main symptoms are severe chest pains, sweating heavily, and coughing up blood. Almost no one ever survived the Pneumonic Plague. 4. Europeans were susceptible to The Plague because they did not take

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