Causes and Treatment of Black Death

The Black Plague, The Bubonic Plague, or The Black Death, whatever you would like to call it, its horribleness will never change. The effect of this horrible plague put on our world will never be forgotten. The Black Death swept across a large part of the world starting in Asia to quickly find its way to the countries in Europe. It was completely unexpected and so abrupt people believed it was a dark spirit coming to make them pay for their sins. Traveling by the carrier, this infection was incurable at the time. It went away after a few years but came back a few times, due to the unsanitary terrain. (Bell, Katie. Fowler, Dave. :) Almost immediately after the plague was identified it quickly spread across Europe with no stop. People fled from the disease hoping to find a safe place but failed that task to only find more death and tragedy. Lots of people secretly think in fear that the Black Death might someday come back again. Their idea is that with climate change and global warming there will be no sanitary place on earth left, leading to more diseases such as the bubonic plague except when it comes back it will never leave.

As I said, the reason or place that the plague would resurface would be because of uncleanness in an unsanitary place. The plague is spread by filthy rats or fleas traveling from city to city or human to human. In the end, the disease was carried by none other than a living host. The key things to stopping this horrible thing from resurfacing would be to keep trying to grow and save our one and only earth. (Admin,) As the plague spread widely throughout Europe almost entirely doctors became harder and harder to find. The cause of this was because doctors were too afraid to help patients because they were afraid to catch the plague themselves. While some doctors were fleeing from their patients' others had caught the plague already, then giving up and just trying to heal themselves and others. The plague was incurable at the moment and lots of other negative terms. Doctors had unique and sometimes crazy methods to cure the plague, such as smooshing a chopped snake on boils or cutting up a pigeon and rubbing it over an infected body eventually finding that nothing was working to heal infected patients. On some rare occasions, doctors figured out how to subdue large side effects for the patient but not forever. We could say that all doctors either went into hiding from gone mad patients or died out from the plague themselves during this horrid time period. But we will never truly know. (editor, bbc.com) We often wonder how something like this could spread so quickly.

Interestingly an earthquake released a disease called Bacillus, a rod-shaped bacteria. The bacteria infected rats, to make the circumstances worse rats were everywhere at the time. The fleas feasting on the rats obtained the plague immediately giving the plague right over to the humans. Rats moved quickly across Europe in large transportation like trains, cargo ships or just on their feet. Humans also spread it increasingly quick not to mention there was no cure for it at the time. An interesting method to kill enemies inhabiting castles was to catapult bodies infected with the plague over the castle walls in hopes to spread it throughout the castle. (Bell, Katie. Fowler, Dave.toatallytimelines.com) Luckily today, the plague is completely curable with antibiotics if given early. No one should have to worry about getting that disease any time soon. It is a large topic to talk about, though for many people have ancestors who experienced that are unaware. We do face strong infections, diseases, and different types of cancer today that cause many problems but not many can match the Black Death! (Fowler, Dave. totallytimelines.com.)

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