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It has been estimated that about 1/3 of Europe's people were killed from the disease. About 25 million people. in Florence, 75% of the population died. in England, before the plague, there was a population of 70,000, they were left with 6,628. the total deaths world wide was 75 million people.

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Bringing up bodies-in the form of skeletons and mummies--and examining them for medical information (known as paleopathology) can be a window into health experiences, culture, discrimination, and daily life in the distant past. Knowledge of past encounters with disease outbreaks can, in turn, provide an opportunity to reflect on how we respond to modern pandemics. Sometimes we are as quick to blame others as carriers as we are to search for causes and cures. In that way, we are little different from those who lived in the 14th century.

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London bodies solve mystery of Black Death

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Bringing up bodies-in the form of skeletons and mummies--and examining them for medical information (known as paleopathology) can be a window into health experiences, culture, discrimination, and daily life in the distant past. Knowledge of past encounters with disease outbreaks can, in turn, provide an opportunity to reflect on how we respond to modern pandemics.

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the first cases of the Black death occurred in the late 1300's in the Gobi desert in the Mongol empire. the rats started to get sick and dyeing. The fleas on the rats infected their blood with the Black Plague. After rats began to die, the fleas began looking for a new food source, so they moved on to humans.

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Some people would burn incense like juniper or rosemary into the air.

another common remedy was the remedy of sound; the church bells would ring early in the morning.

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rotten treacle, a by-product of sugar production was often given to sick patients, although it had to be at least 10 years old in order to work.

Another common treatment was aromatherapy, a treatment of the body using smell. People used to carry around sweet smelling flowers

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the most common symptom of the Black Death was to have one or more infected, enlarged and painful lymph nodes. More commonly known as buboes.

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A Disease of Biblical Proportions

A depiction of the Black Death from a 15th century Bible. Bubonic plague, a bacterial infection characterized by swollen, painful lymph nodes called buboes, has long been blamed for killing one-third or more of Europeans in the mid-14th century. Some, however, question whether the plague present in the modern world could have been responsible for such rapid devastation.

The Vector

Fleas like this one are thought to be part of the deadly duo responsible for most plague deaths in the modern world. Fleas pick up the bacterium responsible from infected, dying rats. The fleas then spread the disease when they attempt to feed off another host.

Rats!

Black rats, Rattus rattus, like the one above, are the other half of the duo blamed for spreading plague. Rats, like humans, are highly susceptible to plague and outbreaks among humans are often accompanied by rodent deaths, known as rat falls.

The Bug

A petri dish culture of the bacterium responsible for plague, Yersinia pestis. Genetic research has shown that this microbe evolved in or around China more than 2,600 years ago and followed humans around the globe.

Blood Suckers

Some have questioned whether plague caused the 14th century Black Death because the modern version of the disease does not spread as rapidly or kill as many as the Black Death did. Research in recent years has shown that fleas can transmit the bacterium much sooner after picking it up than thought. Previously, it was believed that transmission only happened after the bacterium blocked the flea's stomach, starving it and causing it to regurgitate. This process could take several weeks, but now it appears some can transmit the disease in as little as four days.

Hallmark of Plague

Bubonic plague, the most common form, is associated with painful, swollen lymph nodes, called buboes as shown above. After an incubation period of two to six days, symptoms appear, including severe malaise, headache, shaking chills and fever. Plague can also infect the blood or lungs. The latter form, pneumonic plague, can be transmitted person to person.

In the Blood

Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, appears in this microscope image of the bacteria in the blood of the patient. Its cells are the tiny and safety-pin shaped. It kills between 50 and 90 percent of its untreated victims, and about 15 percent of those who are diagnosed and treated, according to the CDC.

Another Victim

Around the turn of the 20th century, the disease spread from Asia around the world by ship. After arriving in San Francisco on a ship from Hong Kong, plague spread into the North American continent, where it now mostly infects wild rodents and their fleas. Above, a ground squirrel killed by the plague.

A Modern Killer

These rats were collected from ships in an Indonesian port during the plague epidemic of 1969. In 2003, 9 countries reported 2,118 cases and 182 deaths. Upwards of 98 percent of those cases and deaths were reported from Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

Safety-Pin Shaped

A fluorescent antibody stain of the safety-pin shaped bacteria that cause plague, Yersinia pestis.

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A depiction of the Black Death from a 15th century Bible. Bubonic plague, a bacterial infection characterized by swollen, painful lymph nodes called buboes, has long been blamed for killing one-third or more of Europeans in the mid-14th century. Some, however, question whether the plague present in the modern world could have been responsible for such rapid devastation.

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Https://sites.google.com/site/theblackdeathmary/medical-prevention

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