The+Plague

=__Transmitting the Bubonic Plague __= = =

The way the bubonic plague was actually quite simple. A group of common rodents would get infected. The fleas that fed off of them would then in turn get infected. The bacteria would multiply and grow in the flea’s stomach and eventually clog its internal organs. When the flea became desperate for food after the rodents died out it would bite anything such as house hold pets or humans. As it fed on the pet or human it would regurgitate the infected blood. This infected the human or the household pet which would in turn infect the humans they lived with. Humans would then spread the infection in many ways such as airborne from coughing, and through contaminated blood,

= **__Symptoms of the Plague __** = The disease Plague also know as the Black Death is a deadly disease that originated in China in the 1920’s but quickly spread to Italy and all throughout Europe. The Plague is a deadly disease that can kill victims, in seven days after developing the disease. The disease consists of infested fleas on rats that leave the rodent and take over human bodies. There are many symptoms for this deadly disease. Some symptoms include fever, chills, body pains, tired, weak, restless, walk very widely, swollen galls, bleeding under the skin and death. Plague kills many of its victims and there is no cure.



=**The Plague after Symptoms** = Since there are generally three types of plagues they each have different symptoms such as bubonic plague which causes buboes meaning swollen, painful, warm lymph nodes, sudden fever and chills, headache, fatigue and muscles aches they appear within two to eight days after your bitten because the bacteria travels through your body. Another plague is called ** septicemic plague it only occurs when the plagues is multiple in your blood system symptoms are fever; chills, ** abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting, bleeding out your mouth, nose or butt, or under your skin also blackening and death of tissue, most commonly your fingers, toes and nose. The last plague is called pneumonic plague, it is the least common plague but it’s the most fatal. It may also cause respiratory failure if you don’t take medicine after the doctors appear to generate the idea that you have it will be fatal, the symptoms of the pneumonic plague is high fever, weakness in muscles headache throwing up, chest pain, difficult breathing and a cough with bloody mucus.

Plague and Animals

Animals will show roughly the same signs and symptoms as humans do. They will have swollen glands and bad repertory symptoms. Ways you can prevent your animal from getting the plague are by giving it flea treatments. (As that is how the plague is transmitted). If you think your animal may have the plague look for flea bites and punctures then take it to the vet IMMEDIATELY.  Malthusian Crisis  The Malthusian Crisis was another theory for what caused the plague. It is a more social and economic explanation to what caused the catastrophe. This theory is explained in detail by David Herlihy in his paper, [|The Black Death and the Transformation of the West]. This theory has to do with the effects of overpopulation of the human race. It is believed the human race will reproduce so fast that because of biological limits an event or series of events will bring the population numbers down. So in Mr. Herlihy's paper he describes the Black death to have brought unparalleled suffering and death but also a pivotal point in western history.

__**Ring Around the Rosy** __ Ring around the Rosy is a nation wide song that children all over the world sing for amusement. Ring around the rosy explains all the symptoms and how they relate to the song. Symptoms that are in the song include a red rash that is in a shape of a ring, & in the song it says “ring around the rosy”. Pockets and pouches in the song is a relation to herbs that were said to transmit the diseases. They “all fall down” shows that all the people who had the disease fell to there death. “Ashes, ashes” tells the story of the bodies that were found after the death of the disease.

**Cures for the Black Death **** (plague) ** During the middle ages the plague had no known cure. The doctors at the time could not pinpoint a cause of the plague. People developed there own cures at the time because of the lack of knowledge in medical science. So many people used superstitions to get their cure and others used herbs and items like such. With these treatments symptoms could be relieved not cured. Headaches were relieved using lavender, rose, and sage. Nausea was treated by mint, wormwood, and balm. Liquorices were used to treat lung problems. Vinegar was thought to cleanse and was used to try and kill the disease. Bloodletting was the most common way to attempt treatment. Superstitious people used bizarre ways to get relief. These included bathing in human urine, drinking powdered emeralds, and use of leeches. Today there is a vaccine for the plague but it takes a couple of weeks to take effect.

**Long Term Effects of the Plague **

The plague had profound changes on Europe and Asia. It left the economy in turmoil and left the psychological state of the people in complete despair. More than half of the European population was wiped out. People feared death and had no explanation about what caused it. One effect was disapproval with the church because they could not tell people what was going on. The main effect of the plague was the loss of population which also led to other major problems. Population decline led to shortage of workers which caused wages and prices to rise. This was not helpful at all considering that the European economy was already in decline and they were fighting a war for the holy land. Employers would offer more than just money for work so to an extent the standard of living for labors rose. And also peasants were helped by higher wages; the ones that were still alive were helped. These were very little to the disastrous state the plague had put Europe in. Landowners and banks had to close because there was no one to lease land or do business. It took six generations for the European population to recover from the four year calamity.



**last.** || The plague is believed to have started in China and it spread to Europe through rading routes and merchants.
 * **Year:** || **Kill-rate:** || **Epidemics:-** ||
 * **1347-52** || **5%-35%** || **The first big plague killing 5% to 35% of populace.** ||
 * **1360-63** || **?** || **This follow-up killed especially minor children.** ||
 * **1563-1636** || **10-30%** || **London was hit in in 1563, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1636 and...** ||
 * **1665** || **28%** || **The Great Plague of London was the last of the big ones.** ||
 * ** 1630 ** || **35%-69%** || **This Italian plague was possibly the worst killer** ||
 * **1709-13** || **30%-49%** || **Germany: Danzig 49% and the Baltic (30%-34%)** ||
 * **1720** || **25%-50%** || **Provence: Marseille 40%, Toulon + 50%, Aix+Arles 25%** ||
 * **1743** || **60%** || **Messina was hit by plague as the** ||
 * **The Spanish Disease possibly killed 30 mill. worldwide.** ||
 * **The AIDS-epidemics is now primarily a Third World killer.** ||
 * ** TB- the old killer is back - 100.000 Russian prisoners hit. ** ||
 * **1918-1919** || **2%** ||  ||
 * **1980-** || **0.25%** ||  ||
 * **1995-** || **0.2%** ||  ||

The plague infected the people and made them sick but it also gave them a new way to look at life. People were now interested in what happened in the afterlife and how they would experience it. This resulted in the interest of the Christian religion which provided a Heaven and Hell for people to believe in. - Jaspreeti Singh

media type="youtube" key="el3h6FvOro0" height="385" width="640"

 Shakespeare Famous Wuotes:

1.) **Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him". - (Act III, Scene II).**

Works Cited "The Plague." //CDC//. 08-06-2009. CDC, Web. 27 Jan 2010. [] Chapman, Capt. Jennifer. "Bubonic Plague." //Army Medicine//. 2004. Army, Web. 27 Jan 2010. .

"The Black Death." //Insecta-Inspecta//. Web. 27 Jan 2010. [].

"Famous Quotes and Quotations from the plays of William Shakespeare." //William Shakespeare//. 2008. - Acting Shakespeare Globe Life, Web. 2 Mar 2010. <http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-quotes.htm>. "Ring Around the Rosy Rhyme." //Nursery Rhymes - Lyrics, Origins & History!//. 2009. rhythm.org, Web. 2 Feb 2010. <http://www.rhymes.org.uk/index.htm>. "Ring Around the Rosey." //www.snopes.com//. 2010. Urban Legends Reference Pages, Web. 2 Feb 2010. <http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp>.

"BLACK DEATH." //users.cybercity.dk///. Web. 3 Feb 2010. <http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko12530/blackdeath.htm>.

"The Effects of The Black Death on the Economic and Social Life of Europe." __123HelpMe.com__. 02 Feb 2010 <http://www.123HelpMe.com/view.asp?id=22890>. schoolhistory.co.uk/>.

// "The Black Death." //The Middle Ages //. 1995. History Of Western Civilization Web. 27 Jan 2010. <http://boiseststate.edu/course/westciv/plague/05.shtml>.//

// "Medieval History." //Death Defined. //2010. New York Times Company Web. 27 Jan 2010. <http://historymerdernabout.com/od/theblackdeath/a/death_defined.htm>.//
 * Nosotro, Rit. "The Spread of The Black Plaque in Europe." //HyperHistory//. Web. 18 Feb 2010. <http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/cot/t2w13blackplaguep1ab.htm>. ||

"Bubonic Plague Pictures: Foot Gangrene." Rare Diseases//. Web. 17 Feb 2010. <http://rarediseases.about.com/od/infectiousdiseases/ig/Pictures-of-Bubonic-Plague/foot-gangrene.htm>.

.