PLAGUE-MIDDLE AGES

Haley Schueler, Cassie Isaacs, Elizabeth

Polikoff

CAUSES

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ad air

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ygiene

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treets were filthy with live animals

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umans fleas

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ransmissible disease

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ersinia pestis- 1 bacterium can be fatal• Spread from rats by fleas

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tarted in China

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rade

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ar

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ontacts between Europe– Silk road

ILLNESS

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as so contagious• didn’t need to be around the sick to catch the illness

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ake 2-7 days for victims to die

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ortality rate could have been 50%-90%.

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forms• Bubonic- killed 5-7 days• Pneumonic- attacked lungs killed in less than a week • Septicemic- entered blood stream killed in less than a day

SYMPTOMS

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lu like symptoms first and high fever

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nvaded lymph nodes- neck, armpits, and inner thigh area

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s disease progresses victim bleeds internally

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loody urine and bloody stools

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ry blood puddles under skin and forms black boils

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mells revolting

SYMPTOMS CONT.

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oughing

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oughing up blood

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hest pains

THE BLACK DEATH BEGINS

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led homes to attempt escape

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hought living in small groups would help

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gnored responsibilities

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eft town and avoided helping anyone

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arents abandoned children

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rices rose

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hurch lost power and influence

TODAY

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f caught today in the first stages it can be treated

with antibiotics

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f bacteria invades respiratory system it will always

be fatal.• Spreads unbelievable fast if infected person sneezes

or coughs

TREATMENT

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f caught early enough it could be treated.

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hey didn’t know how to prevent/cure it

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elieved bad smells could drive out the plague • Dung and urine more likely to spread then cure.

COOL STORIES

Ring around the Rosie• Red rash • Flowers and herbs • “ashes ashes”

relates to cremation or blackening of skin

“Quarantine” Island • Ancient mass grave

contains more than 1500 were discovered

• Believed to be the worlds first quarantine colony to prevent diseases

MYTHS

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any thought living in small groups would help

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rinking too much and celebrating were the best medicine for the disease

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sed herbs

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ancing the buboes

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pplying warm bandage

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athing was though to be bad– Open pores and let sickness in

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hought it was punishment from god

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ried to find someone to blame about the cause– Jews

• Massacred because people thought they started disease

DESTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE AGES

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ociety fell apart• No one felt safe

anywhere• 1/3 of population

died • Religious, social and

economic disturbances

• Took 150 years for population to recover

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