... 800 years later. This time around they called it the Black Death and it wiped out one-third of the population of Europe. This deadly disease, known as the plague, still persists in the world today. If another large epidemic occurs it could move from the world's second ... dangerous Yersinia pestis strains. Be that as it may, in the evil world we find ourselves in, some men would turn this already deadly bacteria into a weapon to use against mankind and consequentially cause untold destruction. The most controversial topic surrounding Yersinia pestis and plague disasters is ... issue of...

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... unsanitary sewers. A third of the European population died in this horrendous period. The Black Death swept through Europe leaving nothing but devastation. The Black Death is just one name for 3 deadly plagues, and we have yet to find an effective treatment for any of these plagues. The bubonic plague was the most commonly seen type of the Black Death. The mortality ... definitely not the least is the septicemia plague. This was the most rare plague of all. The mortality rate for this deadly disease is almost 100%, and yet today there is still is no treatment for this disease. The most ...

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... , or the Great Mortality. As we can see, the Black Death Plague has been in existence for about 650 years, and many are still unsure of the origin of this deadly plague. There are several explanations on the origins of the Black Death Plague. The first is from medieval writers who believe that it began in China because they considered China ... be a land of magical events. Others thought that it originated from earthquakes and fire. However we all know that these explanations are just myths. But many historians agree that the deadly disease originated from infected rodents that migrated ...

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... . Once humans were infected, they, in turn, contaminated others quite rapidly. The bubonic plague's symptoms were fever and painful swelling of the lymph glands, called buboes, which is how the deadly disease got its name. Also, the sickness caused spots on the skin of those infected: first red, and eventually turning black. As it is today, when the bubonic plague occurred ... the worst of the plague was over, smaller outbreaks continued. The oncoming of spring meant the wrath of the plague, not just for years, but for centuries. Survivors of the deadly disease lived in constant fear of ...

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... called Kitcum cave. After his trip to Kitcum cave he went home and three days later had a huge headache that wouldn't go away. That is the first symptom of this deadly disease. A few days later he went to the doctors and they told him he should go to a bigger hospital in Nairobi. Charles caught a flight to Nairobi on the ninth day ... and were being expelled from his body along with huge amounts of blood. This dying process which happens to nine out of ten people who come in contact with the deadly disease is called crashing and bleeding. Samples of his blood were flown to all the major...

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... to die (Jordan 90). The other form of the plague called the pneumonic form spreads through the air like a common cold after attacking the lungs. It is one hundred percent deadly and kills every victim that is infected (Jordan 90). The plague hit many countries and cities. Sometime in the late 1320s, the plague erupted in the Gobi Desert and slowly ... Constantinople, a trader from Venice, claimed that ninety percent of the people died (Corzine 29)."" Medieval life was left in severe turmoil after the Black Death (Jordan 90). The plague was a deadly blow to an already weakened nation. Th...

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... is also known, is caused by Yersina pestis, which is carried by a certain type of flea. The infected fleas bite rats that run rampant throughout the city, and inject the deadly disease into the animal. The rats constantly have had this problem with the fleas, but it is presumed that they only recently passed the disease on to humans. A change in ... or similar occurrence has probably caused the rats to come into contact more frequently with humans. This increase in contact frequency has caused humans to contract the disease, which is deadly. The symptoms of the Plague are similar to oth...

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In the fourteenth century Europe was cursed by a deadly plague, which killed one third of Europe's people. This epidemic is known as the Black Death, or the Bubonic Plague. The plague was carried by rats and fleas along the ... that the disease was transmitted upon the air, probably because the smell from the dead and dying was so awful. So, the living turned to scents to ward off the deadly vapors. People burned all manner of incense: juniper, laurel, pine, beech, lemon leaves, rosemary, camphor and sulfur. Others had handkerchiefs dipped in aromatic oils, to cover their faces when going .....

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... so easy for the disease to spread and be passed on from city to city and from village to village. The plague spread like wildfire and became more dangerous and deadly day after day. Overall, Craig and Marks are similar in context because both discuss the rats and the importance of the trade routes whereas Venette does not because he had ... ...

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... at the time of infection, but during the aftermath as well. The European population grew into a steady decline for at least a century as a result. The plague also had unusual and deadly symptoms. The plague was a natural disaster which was so foreign to the people of this time. It caused panic everywhere, no one knew of any way to stop the plague ... ...

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... launching the corpses similar to ammunition. The people of Caffa fled to Europe bringing the disease with them. The Black Plague is just one of the names for the three deadly forms of the plague that would spread through the continents."Physicians at the time did not know the cause of the disease."(386 , World Encyclopedia) Although the disease had a perfect ... ...

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... and women was the appearance of certain swellings in the groin and armpit area. These swellings, called buboes, were very painful swollen lymph nodes. From the two areas mentioned, the deadly swellings would begin to spread and within a short period of time they would appear at random all over the body. These swellings, to anyone unfortunate enough to contract them, were ... ...

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... aching joints. Though many times there were no symptoms, the most visible sign of the plague was the enlarged lymph nodes in the groin, armpit, or neck. Why was it Deadly? It was a combination of bubonic, septicaemic, and pneumonic plague strains. The bacteria may also invade the lungs in a form of the plague, pneumonic plague. Pneumonic plague is rapidly fatal and ... ...

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... system kicks into action and the virus is forced to mutate to survive. Both the Asian flu from 1957 and the Hong Kong flu from 1968, which were not as deadly, mutated from pig viruses. It is possible that this could happen again without any preperation....

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... Africa there is a major epidemic or the Ebola virus. It is still running rampid throughout the country, and it is not treatable by antibiotics. Poor living conditions contribute to the deadly position of this virus, and science has no known cure. If it was to ever spread to America the impact would be great and might be similar to the consequences ... ...

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... . The only reason it was devastating at the time, is that Europe did not have the vaccines or medicine to kill the diseases. In modern times, the plague is still deadly if left untreated. But, it is easy now to tell if someone has it and it can be quickly treated. Even though the pathogens are still around even in the ... ...

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... was "an infectious and widespread outbreak of disease, generally carried by fleas that infected other animals." (Bunson 369) The disease "was of two strains, bubonic and pneumonic, but the most deadly was called spticimic plague." (Bunson 369) The loss of life due to the epidemic was tremendous. "Europe lost two-thirds to three-fourths of their population." (Bunson 369) The plague ... ...

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... that won't kill or eat you. When you get there you wouldn't have a place to live or know what food is good to eat. You would be subject to many deadly diseases that were very contagious like the Bubonic Plague. The advantage to moving there would be the many opportunities for people that didn't have them. There would be many jobs ... ...

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... no longer available; others were lost because of the paranoia that set into peoples" lives. Wigs were still available to the wealthy, but because of the fear of contracting this deadly disease, the wealthy gave them up. This is an example of the change in the lifestyle of the wealthy. Document fourteen refers to a subject that also affected the rich. Many ... ...

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... the way the world would look at in the future. Throughout the one hundred stories in The Decameron, Boccaccio helps the reader understand the times and the effects of the deadly disease which ran rampant in the poor and dirty living conditions of the time. After it spread in Asia and later found its way to Europe, the plague had a deep ... ...

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... . After the plague had passed, Europe seemed to suffer from a case of collective shell-shock (Strayer and Munro 463), this made it look like all of Europe was hit by a deadly stun gun, but the stun never wore off. What scared the people, was that the Black Death killed more people than a hostile army and gave its victims no chance to ... ...

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... , sneezes, or through fluid contact. It may also become a secondary result of a case of untreated bubonic or Septicemic plague. Although not as common as the bubonic strain, it is more deadly. It attacks the respiratory track, furthering the cycle. Surprisingly, the biggest modern transmission vector for pneumonic plague is not other humans, but rather housecats. This is usually the result of ... ...

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... century flea caused more death and destruction than any military leader or foreign invader in all of European history. The flea bit rats and other rodents that were infected with a deadly bacillus, then migrated to human hosts; in biting the humans, the flea transferred infected blood to its new host. The rodents died. The humans died. The flea lived a long and ... ...

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... by an unending search for food, the rats had migrated slowly westward along the caravan routes. With the rats had travels the fleas. Within these fleas stomachs were thousands of deadly bacteria that caused the bubonic plague, which only moderately affected the black rats. Sometimes though, the rat would die from the bacteria invading its lungs or nervous system and the ... ...

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