Bubonic-plague - Picture, Symptoms, Treatment and History of Bubonic Plague

What is Bubonic plague?

Bubonic plague and black death are the same as both are the transmitted disease and caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis. This disease is transmitted from infected rat to the other non-infected rat by the flea bite because when flea bites to the infected rats the disease transmitted to the flea and then flea bites to another rate or human and spread this disease to all.

Causes of Bubonic plague

The Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" was a fatal disease spread by fleas which lived on rats and humans.

Symptoms of Bubonic plague

  • fever
  • chills
  • headache
  • bleeding and drying of the blood under the skin.
  • enlarged, painful, swollen lymph node
  • weakness
  • shortness of breathing
  • sore throat

Treatment of Bubonic plague

Today this disease is not fatal if treated with antibiotics when first detected. Today, modern antibiotics are effective against plague, but if an infected person is not treated promptly, the disease is likely to cause illness or death.

Black Death - Disaster Strikes

25 million people died in just under five years between 1347 and 1352. Estimated population of Europe from 1000 to 1352.
  • 1000 38 million
  • 1100 48 million
  • 1200 59 million
  • 1300 70 million
  • 1347 75 million
  • 1352 50 million

 


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