does anyone have info on the black plauge???

Question

I need as much info as possible... how it started, wat it was, cures, symptoms... anything you find!!!

Answer 1

"Black Plague" is another name for the "Black Death". The ever helpful Wikepedia says:

The Black Death, or Black Plague, was the most devastating pandemic in human history. It began in south-western Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s, where it received its name Black Death. The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic are estimated at least 75 million people. The Black Death is estimated to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population.

The same disease is thought to have returned to Europe every generation with varying degrees of intensity and fatality until the 1700s. Notable later outbreaks include the Italian Plague of 1629-1631, the Great Plague of London (1665–1666), the Great Plague of Vienna (1679), the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720–1722 and the 1771 plague in Moscow. There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form seems to have disappeared from Europe in the 18th century.

The Black Death had a drastic effect on Europe's population, irrevocably changing Europe's social structure. It was a serious blow to the Roman Catholic Church, Europe's predominant religious institution at the time, and resulted in widespread persecution of minorities such as Jews, Muslims, foreigners, beggars and lepers. The uncertainty of daily survival created a general mood of morbidity influencing people to live for the moment, as illustrated by Giovanni Boccaccio in The Decameron (1353).

The initial fourteenth-century European event was called the "Great Mortality" by contemporary writers and, with later outbreaks, became known as the 'Black Death'. It has been popularly thought that the name came from a striking symptom of the disease, called acral necrosis, in which sufferers' skin would blacken due to subdermal hemorrhages. However, the term refers in fact to the figurative sense of "black" (glum, lugubrious or dreadful).[1]

Because the Black Death was, according to historical accounts, characterised by buboes (swellings in the groin), like the late 19th century Asian Bubonic plague, scientists and historians assumed at the beginning of the twentieth century that the Black Death was an outbreak of the same disease, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas with the help of animals like the black rat (Rattus rattus). However, buboes are a feature of other diseases as well and this view is now widely questioned.

This was a major disaster for civilization at the time, and changed many attitudes within society.

Answer 2

the black plague also known as the bubonic plague was started by rats who were vinfected by flees. it was spread when people coughed. if you had it you would soon grow painful black blisters. as far as i know theres is no cure if you have it you will die. it killed two thirds of europes population. you will have a fever between 101 and 105. it is now very uncommon.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

well its transmitted and endemic in rhodents,last documented out break was in india in the middle ninties,many types and has been endemic in india for centuries and far east

Answer 5

Try searching black death, black plague, or bubonic plague.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm