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                                            Bubonic Plague

You ever thought that the Medieval Europe was all knights saving princesses and castles

with clean moats…Well your wrong. Medieval Europe was dirty and had many dieses

such as measles, pox, and the worst of all BUBONIC PLAGUE.

            The Bubonic Plague is a blood infection caused by flea bites. The fleas came off

 of rats which where millions of them in Europe due to the filth.

 It causes blotches on the skin called buboes, buboes gave the bubonic plague its name.

Bubonic plague causes swellings in the neck and groan area, it also causes bleeding from

the lungs and high fever which drove people crazy.

            The plague arrived in 1347 when Mongol merchant ships arrived in Europe. Most

 ships where ships with everyone dead already with the plague Ghost ships). The rats

 came of the ships and fleas attacked anyone near by. For years the Europe people didn’t

 know who to blame so they blamed the Jews. The people thought Jewish poisoned water

from the city water whole. The people would round all Jews up and burn them in wooden

houses.

            The plague killed 25-40% of Europe population. The plague killed over 25million

 people died between (1347-1351). The plague spread all of Europe by 1357. People

usually died within 2 to 4 days. That’s over 6 million people per year! 45 to 50% died

 in a 4 year period.

            The Plague lasted for centuries. One of the last plagues was the great plague of

 London. It killed over 100,000 people 20% of London’s population. Although the fact

has not been proven, the Great Fire of London ended the Bubonic plague by killing the

There has been more cases of the Bubonic Plague…only as little as 15 people per year.

3,000 people in the world each year say’s the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bubonic plague in the present can be treated with antibiotics, but 1 of 7 cases are

extremely bad.

            The Bubonic Plague was one of the worlds greatest epidemics Europe has ever

 seen. The plague lasted from 1347-1700’s. The reason why people say the Bubonic

Plague died out is because the Great Fire of London. They thought the Great Fire of

London Killed all the effected rats.

            Can the plague come back like 1700’s?

 THE WORLD WILL NEVER KNOW

                  CITATIONS

Kohn, George Childs, “Black Death” Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence:

From Ancient times to present, Third Edition. New York

http://www.themiddleages.net

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-death

http://www.labelle.org/top_diseases.html

Volti, Rudi “Bubonic Plague”

http://www.themiddleages.net

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/09/new-mexico-man-diagnosed-bubonic-

plague

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