PPT-Bubonic Plague

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 SwissFrench Physician and Bacteriologist. 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 (1200-1400). World History - Libertyville HS. Characteristics of Period. Agriculture. Limits of agricultural land reached. “Mini Ice Age” caused famines, loss of crops due to poor growing seasons / long winters. Samantha Villasana. The Start. The plague did. not spread once, but many times over centuries. .. The plague also referred to as . as. the Black Death is said to have started in . China.. Cause. Cause. Ignorance Pandemic. The Aids epidemic came to light during the 1980s. Its breakout started in the continent of Africa, because the virus damages the person’s immune system and along with the poor sanitation and carelessness of the people, many Africans died. Also with its sudden breakout in the United States also having many people infected this bred pubic hysteria, hatred was elevated once again. Like in the past, in the Dark Ages had an epidemic called the Bubonic Plague or the “Black Death”. It was lethal as the AIDS virus, infected people would experience swelling on the lymph nodes or the legs which then turned black. Panic and fear struck, no physician could explain the catastrophe, it left people into the state of ignorance. Without any answers of the disease, violence, hate, and hunting of scapegoats erupted. Having many people die like the AIDS epidemic, the bubonic plague was also from people’s carelessness and poor sanitation but again hysteria blinds people from resolution, without resolution then ignorance begins. By these two evens in history this reveals hysteria and ignorance by humans causes hate and destruction. . Chapter 14 . Section 4. Church Divided. Pope and King Collide in 1300 (King wins). Pope Clement V. Moved from Rome to Avignon, France. Weakened the Church. The Great Schism. College of Cardinals. Chose an Italian pope. aka. The Black Death. Write down everything in RED!!. The Bubonic Plague. Brought to Europe in the 1200s by Mongol invaders. A very deadly disease, . it killed two-thirds of the people who got it within 4 days. -Richard Wellington,. London, 1352. The Black Death. The Beginning of the Plague. Bubonic Plague: very aggressive epidemic that spreads very quickly. The Plague reaches Europe. It came from China on Italian Trading Ships. taxonomy. Member of the . Enterobacteriaceae. . family . yersinia. is gram . nagative. . coccobacilli. . 4-. Yersinia.  . General . characteristics. :. -. . Yersinia . 11 What is Plague -Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis a bacterium found in rodents and their fleas in many areas around the world 2 Why are we concerned Plague as a bioweapon If Y pestis is 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. Black death. taxonomy. Member of the . Enterobacteriaceae. . family . yersinia. is gram . nagative. . coccobacilli. . . . . Yersinia.  . General . 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. 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. 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.