THE BUBONIC PLAGUE BY MOLLY WHAT IS IT

THE BUBONIC PLAGUE BY MOLLY

WHAT IS IT • BUBONIC PLAGUE IS ONE OF THREE TYPES OF PLAGUE. ONE TO SEVEN DAYS AFTER EXPOSURE TO THE BACTERIA, FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS DEVELOP. THESE SYMPTOMS INCLUDE FEVER, HEADACHES, AND VOMITING. SWOLLEN AND PAINFUL LYMPH NODES OCCUR IN THE AREA CLOSEST TO WHERE THE BACTERIA ENTERED THE SKIN. • THE THREE TYPES OF PLAGUE ARE THE RESULT OF THE ROUTE OF INFECTION: BUBONIC PLAGUE, SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE, AND PNEUMONIC PLAGUE. BUBONIC PLAGUE IS MAINLY SPREAD BY INFECTED FLEAS FROM DIFFERENT SMALL ANIMALS. IT MAY ALSO COME FROM SALIVA OR FLUIDS FROM ANOTHER ANIMAL. IN THE BUBONIC FORM OF PLAGUE, THE BACTERIA ENTER THROUGH THE SKIN THROUGH A FLEA BITE AND TRAVEL THROUGH VESSELS TO A LYMPH NODE, CAUSING IT TO SWELL

CASES THEY PREVENTED IT WAS THROUGH THE PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES SUCH AS NOT HANDLING DEADLY ANIMALS. VACCINES HAD BEEN PROVEN TO NOT BE VERY HELPFUL DURING THE PREVENTION OF THE PLAGUE. SEVERAL ANTIBIOTICS WERE EFFECTIVE FOR TREATMENT. WITHOUT TREATMENT, PLAGUE RESULTS IN THE DEATH OF 30% TO 90% OF THOSE INFECTED. DEATH, IF IT OCCURS, IS TYPICALLY WITHIN TEN DAYS OF GETTING INFECTED WITH TREATMENT THE RISK OF DEATH IS AROUND 10%. THROUGH THE WHOLE WORLD THERE WERE ABOUT 3248 CASES REPORTED AND 584 DEATHS BETWEEN 1010 -2015]. THE COUNTRIES WITH THE GREATEST NUMBER OF

• THE BLACK DEATH WAS ESTIMATED TO KILL 50 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE 14 TH CENTURY, 60% OF EUROPE’S POPULATION. • IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PASSED AROUND AND SPREAD THROUGH RATS AND FLEAS ANIMALS LIKE THAT, THEY WOULD BITE YOU AND INFECT IT. IT WOULD GO THROUGH DIFFERENT BLOOD VESSELS AND INFECT THE BODY. IT WAS THEN THEY WOULD BE SICK THE WOUND WOULD GET INFECTED, DEATH WAS USUALLY WITHIN 10 DAYS. • THE CURE: THEY NEVER REALLY SEEMED TO FIND A CURE. THEY WOULD HAVE TO FIND THE BITE AND TRY TO FIND THE BLOOD VESSEL IF THEY FOUND THAT IT WOULD HAVE MOST LIKELY

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