The Bubonic Plague of the mid-fourteenth century was the most devastating natural disaster in European History?
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The Bubonic Plague of the mid-fourteenth century was the most devastating natural disaster in European History. We now know that this plague was caused by rats that were infected by bacteria-carrying fleas. The rats carried the disease as they were unknowingly transported with cargo ships through trade routes. A third of the entire population of Europe is thought to have been killed by this plague. What caused the Bubonic Plague?
June 12th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
in a battle, the bacteria of dead bodies sprouted the disease and then the mogols, threw the dead bodies over the wall seperating the two armies, and the rats and fleas did the rest.
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June 14th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Bad hygiene and waste disposal. The waste in the streets and homes attracted the rats and allowed them to breed. People did not take baths enough or clean their clothes or homes, so rats and fleas would live in them and their clothes instead of being killed, so the fleas were able to reproduce more and carry the disease further.
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June 17th, 2011 at 7:34 am
Actually I think in sheer numbers the Spanish Flu of 1918/19 actually killed more people, although the percentage of the population that died was less.
Something western literature never remembers to mention about the Bubonic Plague is that it also swept across Western Asia (the Middle East) and North Africa killing as many Muslims as it did Christan’s in Europe.
I have also read arguments that the Black Death was actually Typhus, not the Bubonic Plague. I was not really very convinced by the argument, but thought I’d mention they exist.
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June 19th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
The Bubonic plague is indeed carried by rodents, or to be specific, by fleas that bite rodents. The actual cause is a bacteria that is transmitted by the fleas.
However, many modern experts believe that the Black Plague that ravaged Europe in the 1300s wasn’t the bubonic plague at all. It might instead have been a form of Anthrax, which is a disease common in cattle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_plague#Causes
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June 22nd, 2011 at 12:34 am
Well, you know that the disease was carried by fleas which were transported by rats from place to place and I am suspecting that you want to know how it spread across Europe. that is simple enough. TRADE. There was a growth of trade in them thar days with ships going all over the place. There was a trade between the Arabic countries with Indian and other parts of Asia and they brought it into their countries and then a lot of what them imported was exported to Western Europe and thus is travelled to thhose countries. You need to see a map on the spread of the disease to see exactly what I am talking bout.
Filthty living conditions might have been a contributor, but it was not the cause nor the way that the disease moved.
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June 24th, 2011 at 11:33 am
No. The Ice Age(s) were more devastating.
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