How was the black plague in medieval Europe stopped?

Question

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Answer 1

It burned itself out by killing do many people and crushing the economy so that people didn't travel as much and therefore didn't spread the disease.

Answer 2

It was not, "stopped", it just ran it's course, then came back, and then came back again, and again, and again, etc for about six hundred years. Taking London as an example, the plague visited London for many years from the early 14th century right up until the late Eighteenth Century, it was around both before and after the Great Fire (September 1666. Samuel Pepys Diaries make interesting reading on the subject of the Great Fire and the Black Death)
The improvements in sanitation and basic hygene were what eventually got rid of it.

Answer 3

It whipped out most of Europe and those left behind had built a resistance to the Plague. Like any disease, a certain percentage of the population is immune. About 20% of all persons are immune to the affects or tear gas naturally. This holds true to all pathogens. Once the majority of those not immune are whipped out, then the spreading slows until it finally stops. AIDS will end the same way. Their is a certain percentage of the population which is immune to the virus. Once those who are immune are in the majority, the virus will slow and eventually will stop. This may take several generations or several years. The Plague took several years. It decimated about 70% of the human popluation before it finally died out.

Answer 4

There were methods that did work. "Cities were hardest hit and tried to take measures to control an epidemic no one understood. In Milan, to take one of the most successful examples, city officials immediately walled up houses found to have the plague, isolating the healthy in them along with the sick. Venice took sophisticated and stringent quarantine and health measures, including isolating all incoming ships on a separate island. But people died anyway, though fewer in Milan and Venice than in cities that took no such measures. Pope Clement VI, living at Avignon, sat between two large fires to breath pure air. The plague bacillus actually is destroyed by heat, so this was one of the few truly effective measures taken.

As plague epidemics occurred regularly after 1350, preventive measures emerged. Plague patients were placed in pesthouses, isolated from the general population. Ships coming from plague infested areas were forced to stay out of port for a 40 day quarantine until the disease died out.

Answer 5

The first poster is right, but there were two other factors:

1. Attempts to exterminate or at least kill the rats that were spreading the plague.

2. Washing with clean water. We take washing and bathing for granted as part of basic hygiene, but prior to the second rise of the plague, washing was considered unhealthy.

Oddly, despite being a spreader himself of religious nonsense and "predictions", it was Nostradamus who thought of and actively promoted these two basic ideas which prevented the plague from ever being that deadly again. It wasn't Nostradamus' dumbass "predictions" that led to him being labelled a "witch" by some idiots, it was his common-sense approach to disease.

If you want links, look 'em up yourself. You've told you what you need to know, now do the footwork and back it up.

Answer 6

The plague stopped when people started to get immune to it. In other words, the nature was killing the unfittest and sparing the lives of the fit individuals that were either born or were already immune to it. Reading from other texts, there is a clear evidence that people had no idea with what they were dealing with. At that time there were no microscopes available, and virus and or bacteria were almost entirly mistery to them. There were quite crual practices that tried to fix the problem.

Answer 7

Eventually, the Black Plague, or Black Death ran it's course, and it burnt out naturally, after it killed more than half the population of medieval Europe.

Answer 8

first off, the number of dead lowered the number of possible hosts for the disease, plus people slowly figured out what was going on and with proper quarantines, it died off. and actually its cool cause the drop in population strengthened the economy by lowering the number of poor people and by killing the rich, there was more money to go around. we probably need another to come through but oh well.

Answer 9

They burned the bodies of the dead and closed down the whole European side of the world. The truth be told they all died, after that and the world lived happily ever after!

Answer 10

I thought the Great Fire of London (1666?) help clean out the rat-infested wooden slums.