the black plague
...es bacteria, second, bacteria multiply in flea’s gut, third, the gut becomes clogged with bacteria, then, the flea bites a human and regurgitates blood into an open wound, and finally, Human is infected with it. The Bubonic Plague was used for war too. People put diseased rats or flies in other people’s water. It was also used for war in other ways. The dead bodies of the victims of the plague were shot at their enemies by catapult in hopes that the disease would spread. About 850 years ago physicians came up with some pretty strange ideas to get rid of the plague. They recommended holding a bouquet of sweet smelling herbs and flowers up to your nose to ward off the plague. Some say this practice was an inspiration for an old nursery rhyme called ring a ring o’ roses. Back then it was a little different, it went like this, Ring a ring o’ roses a pocket full of posies, atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down. Ring a ring of roses was said to be a rash that often signaled infection. A pocket full of posies were the flowers people carried to sweeten the air. Atishoo was the sound of a sneeze, a common symptom of the disease. We all fall down meant that all of its victims had died. Now for some death totals and dates. On October of 1347 the Bubonic Plague arrived in Sicily. Between February and May of 1349, 400 people a day died of the plague. In this same year over 50,000 Parisians died. That’s half of the Sicily’s population. The plague has many preventive measures, such as sanitation, killing of rats, and prevention of the transport of rats in ships arriving from ports in which the disease is endemic, are effective in reducing the incidence of plague. Famine, which reduces resistance ...