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i love the the plague it is my favorite part of history if you have any interesting information on the plague please tell me the most interesting will get the 10 points

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It started in china in 1330's or some where around there!. It struck there first!. The plague started in China and made its way west across Asia to the Black Sea by 1347!. It was transfered from other areas and then finally found its way to rats!. It disapered for a bit until it;s biggest killing spree which i am sure you know about!. It was common for people to think the church could cleanse the people of the black death!.

It turned out that the plague was passed not only by rats as people think, but from people them selfs who walked into crowded public places infected and would sneeze or touch some one and it was just that easy to pass!.

Most poor people lived in small one bedroom homes that had no bathrooms!. There bathrooms would be a corner on the room!. This and the fact that those with chamber pots threw the waste into the streets along with all there garbage didn't help either!. There wasn't such a thing and clean living at this time!.

As many as 300 or more people would go to see theater production shows and nearly 250 of the people that attended each show would be struck down with the death!.

It got to the point people stopped going out to events!.

The death rate became so high that mass burials were common and many bodys were burned for health reasons!.

Ring around the roses is actually a chant the people would sing in hopes to keep the black plague away!.

Ring-a-ring-a-roses,
A pocket full of posies;
ashes! ashes!
we all fall down!.

is the first way the chant was sang and was then changed sickly into a childrens nursery song!.

Rings of roses, pockets of posies were the herbs they believed would keep them safe!.

Ashes are from the dead bodies that were burned and needless to say we all fall down means death!.

The little creature that came from the rats that caused the out break is called Culprit: Oriental Rat Flea!.

Okay hope this is of some use!. The black plague also known as the bubonic plague is my favorite part of history as well!.


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I apologize, for this information may repeat some of what you already know!.

The Black Death or the Black Plaque is also known as the bubonic plaque!. It supposedly killed off 30%-60% of England's population!.

The disease prompted people to live for the moment, since they never knew when it would strike next!. It was especially hard on the Roman Catholic Church, and it also resulted in the persecution of minorities like the Jews, foreigners, and beggars!.

The plaque was thought to be carried by rats, but there is also evidence it could have been carried by prairie dogs!. Many also think it was found in the soil itself!.

There were three different types of the Black Death that people could be infected with!. Septicaemic Plague means that your blood was infected, or that it was passed along by blood - like HIV is!. Pneumonic Plague was airborne, and it would attack the lungs first!. And then there was the common Bubonic Plaque, which most people refer the the disease as, where you would get boil-type things on your neck and armpits!. Most victims died within four days up to a week after getting the disease!.

Scientists now believe that the Black Death may not have been the Bubonic Plaque, but as they're not sure what it was then that is still the most widely accepted theory!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis (Bubonic plague), but recently attributed by some to other diseases!. Between 1340 and 1790 the plague recurred/revisited Europe in each generation, although not with equal virility!. It may have also appeared in the 1st and 6th century; as well as China in the late 1800's!.!. Its appearance was usually defined by location as the great plague of a large city - London, Vienna, Marseilles, Moscow etc!. The symptoms included swollen lymph nodes (e!.g!. buboes, from which it gets its name) and the common carrier was a flea!. However, in its worst form, the lungs were infected and the result was a pneumonic form, spread via human coughing, etc!. Requiring less than a week each, to kill 90% of its victims, plague killed about 2 million in a year for a total of 137 million!. As horrendous (and obviously intriguing to you) as this was, it is not the worse pandemic!. Influenza in 1918 killed 25 million and it was over the entire globe!.

Plague continues to occur in sporadic outbreaks but is contained with quick application of modern antibiotics!.!.!.in Viet Nam during the American war, and deaths as recently as 1983 in the United States!.

The first use of biological warfare recorded used bubonic plague as its disease in the 1300's!.

For some "man on the street" observations during the 1665 Great Plague of London, read "A journal of the plague year" By Daniel Defoe, Henry Morley!. If that doesn't satisfy a morbid curiosity!.!.!.just remember the plague is still with us!.!.!.it's just sleeping!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ummm!.!.!.!.
The Black death was brought over on a trade ship!.
Because so many people were dying, they had mass burials, and heaped the bodies into pits, and squirted lime juice on them to speed up the decomposing!.
It killed 40% of Londoners!.
People thought the plague was caused by different things, such as- the body's humours are out of balance, the movement of the sun and planets, God and the devil, and invisible fumes or poisons in the air!.
Some thought the Jews had done it, and burnt them at the stake!.
SYMPTOMS
Flea bites human
Victim develops fever and pains
Victims feels tired and weak, but can't sleep
Body Temperature increases
Victim feels giddy/dazed/talks wildly
Buboes appear
Blue rashes
Red rash appears and red spots show up on buboes!.

The plague killed 50-75% of it's victims
Spread by the oriental rat flea
One cure was to put frogs on the plague sore- if it bursts, try another one, and so on until they stop bursting!.

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it was also called the bubonic plague because you grew these lumps in your armpits calld buboes or something!. also your gills turned black!. it wiped out 2/3 of europe!. they also buried people alive!. the song ring around the rosies was invented during the time of the black plague because when they say pockets full of posies, posies are the flowers that they used to cover up the smell of the dead bodies!. ashes ashes we all fall down means they burned the dead bodies so they couldn't spread disease!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ring a ring of roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Atishoo, atishoo,
We all fall down!.

The first line of the rhyme depicts the round red rash that appeared on the victim's skin!. The sweet smelling posies were what people held to their noses to ward off infection!. Sneezing was an early symptom of the disease, and this was closely followed by 'falling down' or sudden death!.

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i have always been fascinated with the black plague and world war II!.


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Well if your interested in it that much there is a great novel based on it you can read, Its called FEVER!. it is an award winning novel, Read it and you will learn more! :DWww@QuestionHome@Com

I know its still around today and it killed tons of ppl and ppl would bring carts around and say bring out your dead!. lol the last part is from a movie but it could have happened you never know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

An older Edward II may be the identity of a medieval figure known as the Grey Man of Ennor, who travelled England mysteriously curing sufferers of the Black Death in the mid-14th century!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It didn't have a set date of when it started and finished!. It would come and go in series of about 10 years or so, then disappear and come back!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

The name of the bacterium that causes the Bubonic plague is called Yersenia pestis!. I always liked the sound of that for some reason!. Www@QuestionHome@Com


The time of Hitler!.!.!. He killed many Jews of over 6million!.!.!. He also let his scientists to conduct experiments on the body of Jews during the war without anesthesia!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

white people wouldn't control america if the plague hadn't stoppedWww@QuestionHome@Com

it may will in near future!.i am sureWww@QuestionHome@Com

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little kids sing about it in their recess rymesWww@QuestionHome@Com