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2007-04-14 18:44:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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The only treatment is with streptomycin, tetracycline, and sulfonamides. Penicillin is without effect against plague.

The suppression of epidemic plague is attempted by appropriate sanitary measures directed simultaneously against fleas and rodents and isolation of the sick and the handling with greatest caution of all infectious material. A vaccine is available and may be used in endemic areas for people likely to be exposed to rodents and their fleas.

Sadly before the Twentieth Century, ther were no medicines and no possible cure.

2007-04-16 00:42:41 · answer #1 · answered by Retired 7 · 0 0

I read about the details of how the victims of the Black Death (Bubonic Plague) were treated in Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (first published in 1722), Penguin Classics, 2003.

2007-04-14 21:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 0 0

It would help if you could be more specific. In many cases fear of the plague was so strong that no one would go near the houses of victims, leaving the bodies to rot inside. In other places the victims were simply dumped into mass graves, because there were too many to dig individual graves. If you're asking about the living victims, some were treated humanely and brought food, etc. especially by religious orders, but most were shunned.
There are some cases where there was simply no one left to bury the bodies, and whole villages were wiped out.

2007-04-14 18:48:00 · answer #3 · answered by 2Bs 3 · 2 0

They were wrapped up and burned then buried. While they were alive people stayed the hell away from em'.

2007-04-14 18:47:11 · answer #4 · answered by Nicaro C 2 · 0 0

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