Painting of the Bubonic Death days by Angelo Caroselli
INTRODUCTION The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague, a disease caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis of which circulates among wild rodents where they live in great masses of density. The plague was the worst recorded pandemic in history. Over one-third of the population of Europe died from this deadly outbreak. The plague was originally transmitted from the flea of which took the parasites and bacteria out of the rodents (most commonly rats) and fed on its blood. The rat therefore dies and the flea then moves on to another creature. This torturous plague began in the fourteenth century in the Eastern shores of Italy unleashing an enormous amount of rampage of death. The disease spread swiftly as it was highly contagious and the death was later discovered in 1894 by Shibasaburo Kitasato and Alexandre Yersin. |
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Rats were a significant part of the spreading of the Plague
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Published on 21st November 2014 by Habner, W