2007-09-19 01:02:56 · 8 answers · asked by dibakar c 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The vector is the rat flea, and the agent is Yersinia pestis, also known as Pasteurella pestis. Characterized by painful buboes in the axilla, groin, or neck; fever often rising to 106 degrees Fahrenheit; prostration with a rapid, thready pulse; hypotension; delirium; and bleeding into the skin from the superficial blood vessels. The symptoms are caused by an endotoxin released by a bacillus, Yersinia pestis, usually introduced into the body by the bite of a rat flea that has bitten an infected rat. Also known as the Black Death because of the bleeding into the skin which would turn black from the widespread hematomas.
A bubo is a greatly enlarged, tender, inflamed lymph node usually in the groin, axilla, or neck associated with diseases such as bubonic plague, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, and syphilis. Treatment of the buboes includes antibiotic therapy, moist heat, and sometimes incision and drainage.
If you are eating cardboard and cloth, Chatty82, the plague is the least of your worries, and these two substances do not harbor the bacillus.
2007-09-19 02:31:12 · answer #1 · answered by Lord Bearclaw of Gryphon Woods 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pasturella pestis is a bacterium found in the gut of fleas which bite and thus infect the rats, and any other mammalian lifeforms they come into contact with. The bacterium establishes itself either in the lungs (pneumonic plague) or in the lymph system (bubonic plague) and replicates merrily, destroying host cells until there's not enough healthy cells left to sustain life.
2007-09-19 01:15:18 · answer #2 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The flea carried the plague and that flea tended to hitch a ride along on rats. Rats were very common place at the time of the plague because people weren't very good about sanitation in the cities of the time. Perfect feeding and breeding ground for rodents.
2007-09-19 03:56:30 · answer #3 · answered by Bonnie F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darlin - it does happen on the instant and is carried extensively via wild animals. Our county right here in Texas exchange into under quarantine for the transport of animals through rabies, bubonic plague and anthrax outbreaks in basic terms a pair of years in the past... yet as for the Bubonic Plague, that's merely curable with antibiotics. whilst it initially passed off - docs got here upon that feeding human beings Rose Hips ought to help them conquer the ailment. Nostradamus had multiple achievement doing that. ...Rose hips are an invaluable source of nutrition C.... and that's all it took then. Now, Penicillin can take care of it. It nevertheless happens around right here in Squirrels and rats. yet do no longer hassle. docs can therapy it whilst human beings settlement it. Peace.
2016-11-05 21:48:11 · answer #4 · answered by laubersheimer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pasturella pestis is a bacterium found in the gut of fleas which bite and thus infect the rats
2007-09-22 16:45:11 · answer #5 · answered by kissaled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bubonic plague was mentioned in Camus' "Lance those buboes" Buboes are hard raised lumps caused by eating cardboard and cloth that can't be broken open...
2007-09-19 02:40:03 · answer #6 · answered by Chatty82 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
rat fleas and uhhh mmm i cant think of it
2007-09-19 01:07:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
rats and fleas
2007-09-19 01:36:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋