What is the Black Death? What are some symptoms? What is a plague? Where and when did the bubonic plague first enter Europe? What causes a pandemic? How do you prevent the bubonic plague? What disease has caused a major epidemic in Africa? Can the bubonic plague be cured? What killed ...
plague diseaseYersinia pestisThis chapter addresses the following questions: If anthrax or plague were used as a biological weapon, what would be the expected epidemiology? What would be the clinical manifestations? How would a diagnosis be made? What is the recommended treatment? And what is the...
A commonly held belief was that God had sent the plague as punishment. In Italy, where the Black Death first struck during the Renaissance, officials found a more practical explanation. They blamed the arrival of foreign ships carrying not only cargo, but pestilence. Consequently, they implemented...
Bubonic plague, a disease that killed millions of people in the Middle Ages is caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium transmitted by fleas. How is a virus like hantavirus similar to, and different from, a bacterium like Yersi...
Mr. Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and the author of “The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease.” You may remember that a pandemic began five years ago, but you’d...
is written for those who do ride and the potential risk involved. I consider motorcycle EM radiation a possible “Black Plague” for unsuspecting riders. Q: How willMotorcycle Cancer?affect the motorcycle industry? I feel thatMotorcycle Cancer?will send a shock wave through the motorcycle industry...
People first used the word “pandemic” in 1666. Some notable pandemics over time include: Bubonic plague.It's also called the Black Death or the Plague. It happened in Europe, Asia, and Africa from 1346 to 1353 and is considered the deadliest and worst pandemic in history. The disease sp...
Plagueis a disease caused byYersinia pestis, a bacterium found in rodents and their fleas. In the Middle Ages, the plague caused tens of millions of deaths across Europe in a series of outbreaks known asthe Black Death. While the bacterial infection is still around today, it is far more ra...
people in Europe would throw their waste right in the middle of the street . At the time , people didn't understand the connection between public health and garbage . This filth attracted rats and fleas , which spread a deadly disease ....
What is the dancing plague?Dancing Mania:This was a social phenomenon that occurred across Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. Put simply, it involved many people dancing erratically together for seemingly no reason. Sometimes, people even collapsed and there are some reports of death....