"The bubponic Plague-retrieved from wikipedia--"Bubonic plague is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease plague, which is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. The epidemiological use of the term plague is currently applied to bacterial infections that cause buboes, although historically the medical use of the term plague was applied to pandemic infections generally ( see cholera). Plague is primarily a disease of rodents. Infection most often occurs when a person is bitten by a rat or flea that has fed on an infected rodent. The bacteria multiply inside the flea, sticking together to form a plug that blocks its stomach and causes it to begin to starve. The flea then voraciously bites a host and continues to feed, even though it is unable to satisfy its hunger. During the feeding process, blood cannot flow into the blocked stomach, and consequently the flea vomits blood tainted with the bacteria back into the bite wound. The Bubonic plague bacterium then infects a new host, and the flea eventually dies from starvation. Any serious outbreak of plague is usually started by other disease outbreaks in rodents, or some other crash in the rodent population. During these outbreaks, infected fleas that have lost their normal hosts seek other sources of blood.
In 1894, two bacteriologists, the French Alexandre Yersin and the Japanese Shibasaburo Kitasato, independently isolated the bacterium in Hong Kong responsible for the Third Pandemic.
The Plague of Justinian in A.D. 541–542 is the first known pandemic on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague. This outbreak is thought to have originated in Ethiopia or Egypt. The huge city of Constantinople imported massive amounts of grain, mostly from Egypt, to feed its citizens. The grain ships may have been the source of contagion for the city, with massive public granaries nurturing the rat and flea population. At its peak the plague was killing 10,000 people in Constantinople every day and ultimately destroyed perhaps 40 percent of the city's inhabitants. It went on to destroy up to a quarter of the human population of the eastern Mediterranean.
The earliest (though unvalidated) account describing a possible plague epidemic is found in I Samuel 5:6 of the Hebrew Bible."
2007-02-15 05:55:32
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answered by Anonymous
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It´s an endemic disease located in oriental Asia, (China),carried by rodents, the major pandemic cases in Europe and Central Asia, were caused by the commerce between Florence and Venice with China, and earlier by the trade between Constantinople,(Turkey), and China.
2007-02-15 08:14:41
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answered by JuancaD 2
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I can't top wikipedia, but I can give an aside.
Ring around the Rosies.
(the ring around the bubos of the victims.)
Pocket full of posie's.
(a flower and herb thought to hold away the disease.)
Ashes to ashes.
(the burning of the bodies of bubonic plague victims.)
All fall down.
(the last is obvious.)
2007-02-15 07:40:03
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answered by Terry 7
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The black plauge origanates from the london england than it began to make it's way towards the rest of europe
2007-02-15 08:29:23
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answered by Sunfire666 2
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PRIMARILY EUROPE, POSSIBLY STATRTED IN ENGLAND MAYBE FRANCE?
2007-02-15 08:10:44
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answered by INFOBUSTER 2
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your backyard
2007-02-15 06:44:16
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answered by Anonymous
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