know of the Black Plague and the rats that are associated with it. What they don’t know is that the plague originated in a different part of the world than they may expect. It actually began in parts of Asia where uncleanliness was as common as drinking water. A bacteria known as Y. Pestis took hold of rats. "Yersinia pestis (Y.Pestis) is a gram-negative, rod-shaped coccobacillus, a facultative anaerobic bacterium."(Wikipedia). Though it was not rats that transferred this bacteria to the homo sapiens, it was the fleas. Fleas and various other insects with a similar blood diet would drink the blood of a rat that was infected with Y. Pestis. Then the disease would begin to work its …show more content…
A good example of this would be when the Black Death began appearing in Europe. Doctors did not know of this illness or how to treat it. This led to many different treatments appearing throughout history Many of the Plague Doctors proposed Blood Letting which was composed of lancing through veins and letting 'bad blood' drain from the wounds before stuffing the open veins with a mixture herbs. Another similar to this was lancing the buboes which was where the boils where cut open to the infection drained from the body. Many other cures were proposed, some more gruesome than others. There were some though that fell into a much gentler range. One was bathing the diseased in a mix of vinegar and rose water. Some were mixes of herbs which were to be worn so the air around the patient could be purified. A common one was drinking herbal teas with crushed egg shells and flower petals. Though none of these methods would be able to cure this plague and the poor people that this treatments were being practiced on would surely …show more content…
Even though modern medical practices and cleanliness lower the risk of infection it is still very possible for one to get infected in todays society. It had taken scientists many years to find out how Y. Pestis was transferred from person to person. Though it was eventually discovered that the Black Death was transferred by a type of germ called bacillus which travelled through the air, pneumatically or by the bite of and infected animal or insect. But even though there were only fifteen cases of plague during 2015 the plague is becoming more common each year. This is believed to be because of the fact that doctors have still yet to find a cure of vaccine for this infectious disease. Doctors have been able to slow the rate in which a patient with the plague would die and in the rare case with an unknown mix of medication even save some patients, though they are unable to single out the medication which would cure
Some believed the plague was caused by miasmas (bad air) or poisonous vapors associated with decomposition and foul air. Some people resorted to burning incense or other herbs because they believed that the overpowering smell of the dead victims was the source of the disease. Public officials took measures to contain the disease through quarantine by walling up homes that had members with disease. This action had limited success, but still prevented the disease more than in other areas which did not enforce this type of
The causitive agent of the Plague is Yersinia Pestis. It is a gram negative, zoonotic and epizootic. It is a rod shaped bacteria that is a meiotrophic organism. Some scientist have developed CryptFind which is a method of theorectically testing the genomes. There are limitied rescourses for doing research since this bacteria poses such a threat to society.
Therefore, the medicine and treatments that people received for the Black Death were more based upon prayer and miracles, for example, a fifteenth century Italian medical book suggests that plague victims should make a good death through their last rites rather than treating their body . This would have meant that victims would have accepted their fate and exposed themselves to other people, such as the priest that would come to administer their last rites, meaning that the more contagious part of the disease, the pneumonic plague, would have been passed on to more and more people. However, whilst some of the medicines had no use, others did help to prevent the spread of the disease and, while no one had any idea why, some people did survive being infected due to some of the treatments. Lancing the Black Death’s famous buboes was one such treatment .
The flea was the disease vector and rats, along with other mammals, were the hosts. A bacteriologist named Theobald Smith discovered that ticks and other arthropods can transmit diseases such as Texas cattle fever. His
The Bubonic Plague, is a disease that is caused by Yersinia pestis. This bacteria is found in rodents, such as rats. Fleas feed on these rats, and it can be passed to humans through flea bites. The Bubonic Plague was first seen in China, yet it came to Europe in the year 1347 with the use of Genoise Ships. These ships would bring the contaminated rats across the Black Sea.
The cramped living conditions, lack of proper medical care, and even lack of attention for the sick helped the virus spread. With the medical knowledge available at the time that is not hard to fathom. Plus one has to take into count self-preservation. The best chance to stay healthy was to avoid anyone who may have the plague or someone who has possibly come into contact with a victim of it. Which was basically impossible in those conditions.
The Black Death ravaged over 20 million people in China, India, Persia, Syria and Egypt during the early 1340’s. Most of these people were in Europe; this was over ⅓ of the population at the time (“BLACK PLAGUE”). This was the First Pandemic of the Bubonic Plague, killing far more than any Pandemic to follow it. Given the knowledge of medicine and science during this era, the Black Plague spread like wildfire, and caused many hideous symptoms which led to several ineffective treatments. Luckily, scientists and doctors worked together to create a cure, and while the Bubonic Plague does still infect people to this day, the wave that killed countless Europeans died out by 1400 (“IN THE WAKE OF THE PLAGUE:
The historical pandemic of the Black Death (1347-1352), which killed 25 million people, greatly impacted the European history of the Middle Ages. Originating from China and Inner Asia, the infection of the bacterium Yersinia pestis had widely spread, rapidly infecting those who encounter the infected. The main cause of the spread derived from flea-infected rats on boats or the fleas on the bodies and clothes of the travellers. People at the time had limited understanding of the world, so they believed that the Black Death had an association with supernatural forces such as God’s punishment for sin and demonic acts, along with performing medical procedures that were futile for the disease. The era was highly affected by the plague,
The decline of population was a prominent aspect in the deadly epidemic. Physicians didn’t have any knowledge of the Black Plague, which made it difficult to cure and eliminate the disease. With the lack of information about the disease and how it started, it resulted in many people not being able to get cured: “perhaps either the nature of the disease did not allow for any cure or the ignorance of the physicians… did not know how to cure it; as a consequence, very few were ever cured…” (Bubonic Plague DBQ Doc. 1). There was no medicine for
The Black Death was a disease which spread across Europe in the fourteen century, killing a great part of its population, and making the illness the worst natural disaster on the European continent. The Bubonic Plague, or Black Death, was caused by a bacteria which spread through infected fleas living on rats (Mulch). After the rat died from the bacteria, the fleas would turn to people infecting them instead since the rats lived in the villages and towns especially on the ships (Fiero). After three days of incubation the illness spread to the lymph nodes, swelling into blisters commonly in the armpit, neck, and groin area (Mulch). People infected died five days after incubation of the illness.
In England we have got hit by a less brutal Black Death I am immune and have decided to test each theory and see if it is true. I will share with you my findings to find a real cure, not some made up fake stuff, to finally end the plague. I have also interviewed people from Asia who were doctors, and also descendants of people who went through the Black Death. I am writing this to inform
The Black Death destroyed people but not the capital or resources available to have a fertile economy. As a result of a shortage of workers’ wages rose in agriculture immediately following the end of the plague and then slowly declined as the population rebounded (Martin, 2008). Contact with animals has been the cause of the worst contagious diseases that has affected humans in past societies. Resistant strains of plague, smallpox, influenza, and others were triggered by infections which first affected domestic animals. Various non-domestic species which also came in contact with humans such as mice, fleas or lice
The Christians thought the Lord was punishing them with the disease, and that when the Lord was enraged to embrace in acts of penance, so that you do not stray from the right path and parish. The Christians pray to their Lord and ask what they should do? A great number of saintly sisters of the Hotel Dieu, who did not fear to die, nursed the sick in all sweetness and humility, with no thought of honor, a number too often renewed by death, rest in peace with Christ, as we may piously believe. People began to think the Jews were guilty for the disease. The Muslims looked at praying for the disease to go away in disgust, because they believe the plague is a blessing from God.
The black plague was a very successful disease in the mid 1350’s due to the low medical ability and knowledge of the people populating the city or town. I will start off by saying people often run away from the danger to others, where with this you have to stay away from people. If you want to get to switzerland because
During the mid-fourteenth century, a plague hit Europe. Initially spreading through rats and subsequently fleas, it killed at least one-third of the population of Europe and continued intermittently until the 18th century. There was no known cure at the time, and the bacteria spread very quickly and would kill an infected person within two days, which led to structural public policies, religious, and medical changes in Europe. The plague had an enormous social effect, killing much of the population and encouraging new health reforms, it also had religious effects by attracting the attention of the Catholic Church, and lastly, it affected the trade around Europe, limiting the transportation of goods. As a response to the plague that took place