Black Death Exam Questions Fully Solved.

Pandemic that spread throughout parts of Asia and most of Europe - Answer What is the black plague? bacterium called Yersinia pestis - Answer Where does it come from? First on fleas, fleas on rats, rats die, then fleas go on humans - Answer How does it get to humans? Viral Hemorrhagic Fever - Answer Some people thought it was trading with China brought back from merchants - Answer Origin? Bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic - Answer Types of plague lymph nodes: swollen areas called buboes but not always fatal - Answer What does the bubonic plague attack? Lungs and easily passed through air, mostly fatal 24 hours to a few days - Answer What does pneumonic attack? infection of the blood (most deadly) 100% fatal usually within 24 hours - Answer What does septicemic attack? vinegar and water baths, bleeding the victim, and not eating smelly foods - Answer Some cures 1-3 burning garbage from streets, burying victims far from town and burning their clothes, carrying sweet-smelling flowers (pockets full of posies) - Answer some cures 4-6 weird drinks (eggs shells and ground up flowers), herbal treatments, and prayer - Answer some cures 7-9 self-punishment town to town taking on people's sin - Answer Cure, what was flagellants