The Bubonic Plague in Europe
The report from Colorado comes about one week afterofficials in China announceda suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Associated Press reported that authorities in the Bayannur district raised the plague warning earlier this month, ordering residents not to hunt w...
In addition, the war raised the social position of the bourgeois class. All these factors contributed to the decline of feudalism in Britain.During the Hundred Years' War, Britain was affected by the Black Death. The bubonic plague broke out firstly, which killed many English. Hence, the ...
The Bubonic Plague or Black Death arrived in Europe in 1348 and in Italy in the spring of the same year22,23. It should be noted that the plague inspired Boccaccio to write his famous nouvelle Decameron only a couple of years after the end of the pandemic. Its consequence was the death...
129, 130, 136, 138, 139, 140 A twentieth century disease, HIV-1 has not been around long enough for selection pressure to drive CCR5Δ32 from 0 to 10% in European populations.141 Another pathogen, Yersinia pestis, the cause of the bubonic plague, was proposed as an agent of positive ...
The series of bubonic plagues (1499–1720 AD) for example, have been known to leave their signatures on the global environment. Ruddiman (2003) observed correlations between plague pandemics and decreased carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations from reconstructed ice cores. These correlations were ...
This chapter will examine how plague survivors visualise the landscape of the plague in the rural central highlands of Madagascar, where outbreaks recur annually. In August 2015, over the course of several days, a middle-aged couple lost eight family members to bubonic and pneumonic plague, four...
然而,在本世纪末之前,地球上的人口数量可能会出现自黑死病(Black Death或Black Plague,医学称之为bubonic Plague,是人类历史上最严重的瘟疫之一。起源于亚洲西南部,约在14世纪40年代散布到欧洲。这场瘟疫在全世界造成了大约7500万人死亡,其中2500万为欧洲人。根据估计,中世纪欧洲约有三分的人口死于黑死病)以来的首次...
The first great work-from-home experiment occurred after the bubonic plague struck London and the south of England. It led the University of Cambridge to send its students home, and that was when a young student by the name of Isaac Newton sat in his garden and...
Past outbreaks of zoonoses involving domestic or wild animals – e.g., BSE (Adkin et al., 2010), bird flu and SARS (Yang et al., 2007), or the bubonic plague (Nelson et al., 1986)– have had significant consequences regarding our use of, and attitudes towards the affected animal ...