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. Yersinia. . p. estis. What is the Plague?. Disease Causing Agent. Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria. Yersinia. . pestis. Facultative anaerobe. Discovered in 1894 by Alexander . Yersin. Swiss/French Physician and Bacteriologist. The Plague: Primary Source Quotes. Taken from Jackdaw’s The Black Death . Packet.    . “So great was the want of laborers that a third part and more of the land throughout the entire kingdom went uncultivated [unfarmed].”. Shada Aimadeddine, Iyobo Aimiuwu, and Hannah Barboza. Health Science Project. August, 31, 2012. History. . The history of the Bubonic Plague  is definite and based on true facts. As more than 70 million people died during the Middle Ages of Bubonic Plague or what they called as Black Death. It almost wiped out the almost all of Europe’s population, because the infection was so widespread that it spread to up to 60 percent of the population.. Plague of Athens (430 BC). Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Plague lasted 3 years. Killed ~25% of Athens population . Including Pericles . Likely Typhoid fever or a Hemorrhagic Fever like Ebola. Ecological Niche models of plague in Uzbekistan : extracting biological information from multiple-species models vs. species specific models to understand hosts and vectors Jason K. Blackburn, PhD, in several ways The most important1 Bites of fleas from infected rodents2 Direct contact with sick animals3 Pet involvementEXPOSURE TO PLAGUEHungry fleas willfluids of an infected animal can ent disease. caused by . Yersinia. . pestis. involving rodents and . fleas. First recorded in China in 224 BCE. Black death. : 14. th. century in Europe; 50 million deaths. Transmitted by infected flea bites to humans. type I). Also K/as. Mad rat disease. Black death. Mahamari. Pestilential fever. Buboes. Pest. "Black death" inspired one of the most enduring nursery rhymes in the English language, “Ring a Ring . Pestis. The Black Death (Bubonic Plague). Origins of the Plague. Began in Asia (the Mongols) and traveled through trade routes to the Middle East and eventually Europe. Battle at . K. affa. Hit Sicily first (1347) – Boat of Dead People Arrives. What Is It? Plague is a bacterial infection caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacteria carried in rodents, such as rats and mice, and their fleas. Plague is rare in the United States but has been found in Title: Learning Objectives 1. escribewhat Renaissance people thought caused the Great Plague.2. Explainhow people tried to cure the Great Plague.3. Evaluate the medieval prevention methods of the Grea an . infectious disease caused by the bacteria . Yersinia. . pestis. , a . zoonotic. bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. It is transmitted between animals through fleas. . . Boisier P, Rahalison L, Rasolomaharo M, Ratsitorahina M, Mahafaly M, Razafimahefa M, et al. Epidemiologic Features of Four Successive Annual Outbreaks of Bubonic Plague in Mahajanga, Madagascar. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8(3):311-316. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0803.010250. The Great Plague . 1644 - 1666. Epidemic. Pandemic. Triassic. . Jurassic. . Cretaceous. . Prehistoric Period . Stone Age. . Bronze Age. . Iron Age. . 250 million. . 15,000BC – 2500BC. Roman Britain .