Close to 25 million people died from the plague. There are three different kinds of the plague with their own different symptoms. The Bubonic plague: MOST COMMON of all three, infection in the lymphatic system. The victims have swelling of their lymph nodes which is VERY painful for them (PLUS THE SWELLING COULD GET TO THE SIZE OF EGGS!). The victims with the disease had black spots on their skin, a fever, chills, headache, muscles aching, and high exhaustion. And with everything to that they also have a PUNGENTsmell. It usually took 2-7 days for a victim to die! The mortality rate for this plague was 50-90%.
The Pneumonic plague: infection in the respiratory system. The victims of the Pneumonic plague had coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath, and high, high fever. The victims had FEWER than 2 days to LIVE! The mortality rate of the plague was close to 100%.
The Septicemic Plague: The LEASTcommon plague, infection in the circulatory system. Includes SOME of the systems the Bubonic plague had included. The Septicemic Plague has MORE seizures and bleeding than others though. The victim has less than a day to survive the plague. The mortality rate for this plague is also 100%.
ALL of the plagues I have just talked about were CAUSED by the SAME bacteria. The bacteria lives in the bloodstream of rats and live in the fleas that are on the rats. Fleas can give the disease to other mammals and as you have learned, to humans.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Why were the doctors letting the victims of the disease die?

NOBODY had known what to do; the disease came on so suddenly. I have learned that the rats with the fleas that carried the disease hid in sailors’ clothes while they sailed back across to Europe after trading. Then the sickness arose into the towns and cities and MILLIONS DIED.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
How did the plague rise?
The plague came along at the time of 1348-1350. People lived PACKED together in cities, so ANY disease would’ve been able to spread VERY QUICKLY with DEADLY affects. Surgeons had no cure and the Black Death spread so RAPIDLY that it rose to DISASTER. The black rat carried the disease into Europe. It took over the European cities and surgeons and doctors had no idea what to do. The black rat carried the disease that came from fleas, onto trade ships.
The plague went ALL THE WAY UP AND THROUGH the Italian Peninsula, France, Rhineland, Central Europe, and then finally the British Isles. The plague died for a while in Scandinavia but came back later on. MILLIONS died from the harmful disease with dreadful affects and symptoms. It seemed to me to be a TERRIBLE and MISERABLE way to die.
What happened to the cities? what about the people who had caught the disease?

Later, since there was a terribly small amount of people in the cities, the plague died away…but only for a while. The disease was dormant so it came back but mostly in large cities. The plague showed up with one last HUGE outbreak which was called “The Great Plague”, this happened in the late medieval times and some but not a lot of the early modern times.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
What was the conclusion of the plague?

Friday, May 13, 2011
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