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The Black Death
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The Culprits
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The Disease Cycle Human is infected!
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria. Bacteria multiply in flea’s gut. Human is infected! Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound. Flea’s gut clogged with bacteria.
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The Famine of By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate. A population crisis developed. Climate changes in Europe produced three years of crop failures between because of excessive rain. As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died. One consequence of starvation & poverty was susceptibility to disease.
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Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.
The Symptoms Bulbous Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.
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Lancing a Buboe
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Medieval Art & the Plague Bring out your dead to the streets!
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Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.
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Death Triumphant !: A Major Artistic Theme
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Medieval Art & the Plague
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1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople!
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Attempts to Stop the Plague
“Leeching” A Doctor’s Robe
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Attempts to Stop the Plague
Anti-Semitism ( people blamed the Jews) “Golden Circle” obligatory badge “Jew” hat
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The Mortality Rate: 25,000,000 dead !!!
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