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The History of Plague - Black Death

Investigate the wider effects of infectious disease on human health, including innovative treatments, ethical and social implications, and present findings as a scientific article or expert report.

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The History of Plague - Black Death

Investigate the wider effects of infectious disease on human health, including innovative treatments, ethical and social implications, and present findings as a scientific article or expert report.

   Added on 2020-06-05

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SHE – Infectious Disease – Black Death (Part C)Introduction Black death was the most epidemic disease is the history of human. It was resulted in the death of 75 to200 million people. This was occurred in 1346-1353 in Eurasia (Black Death, 2010). There were varioustheories developed in identifying the cause of black death but after the final analysis it was found out thatthe pathogens which are responsible for black death was Yersinia pestis bacterium, found to be from aforegut an infected flea, these fleas commonly found on rodents. This lead to the discovery that thedisease was passed through rodents. (Greg Botelho, CNN. 2017). Black death/ Bubonic plagueThis disease was caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis, a bubonic plague which circulates in the wildrodents. They live in high density and high in numbers. Such kind of places is also called as plague focus orplague reservoir (Hope, 2015).A plague is basically defined as a remarkably huge number of bugs orinsects in the form of animals invading a place by together causing harm.Such kind of plague in humanarises when the black rats or rodents became infected. This is exposed after one to seven days. This ismajorly spread by some infected fleas which are from small animals (Epidemics of the Past: BubonicPlague. 2017). It is on stating about the type of bacteria where Yersinia pestis are a type of coccusbacteria. However, earlier it was hard for people to easily recognize the form and category of bacteria’sdue to no such technological advancements in comparison to today. As a result, to which, earlier thesewere merely identified as fleas where one can easily identify its specific type with the help ofmicroscopes, etc. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Yersinia+pestis+bacterium+extracted+from&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU728AU728&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmjpfxjN_VAhWBT7wKHR7_DHoQ_AUICigB&biw=912&bih=555#imgrc=FLBAg5j9haZIaM:Page 1 of 5
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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ce/99/83/ce9983fa1a6ba7e68150cdef78faf4e1.jpgOn considering today’s advancement in technology, one can easily take the assistance ofmicroscopes and color for determining the type of bacteria to e ffortlessly recognize its other relateddetails.Bacterium/ symptomsThe bubonic plague is very rarely spread through the contact of person to person. The lymph nodes aregetting affected by this plague the most. These nodes are another part of lymph system. The bacteria willstart showing its effects within 3 to 7 days (History Extra. 2017). The person will develop some symptomsof flu like headache, fever, weakness, chill tender lymph glands and swollen. The dying tissue startsappearing black which will cause the bleeding of tissues and in severe cases it may cause death.Page 2 of 5
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