1. The Black Death

2. Ring around the rosy Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes
Ring around the rosy Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes! We all fall down!

3. What is the Black Death? Also known as the Black Plague
Caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestitis.

4. Three types of the Plague
Bubonic Plague
Septicemic Plague
Pneumonic Plague

5. Bubonic Plague Most common form Mortality rate 30-75% Symptoms
enlarged lymph nodes
headaches
nausea
aching joints
high fever
vomiting

7. Septicemic Plague Most rare form Mortality rate close to 100% Symptoms
high fever
skin turns deep shade of purple
abdominal pain
bleeding into the skin and other organs
As many as 800 people died every day

9. Pneumonic Plague The bacterium infect the lungs
Most contagious because is spread by cough
Symptoms
high fever
chills
difficulty breathing
cough with blood

10. How do you get the plague?
Bacterial disease spread to humans and other animals from fleas.
Disease contracted by:
bit by infected fleas
contact with an infected animal
inhaling infectious droplets

12. Europe and the Plague 1347-1351 1/3 of the European population died
The Plague was so terrible that many thought it was the end of the world.
No cure available at the time.
No idea how it spread

13. The children’s rhyme Ring Around the Rosy came about at this time.

14. Ring Around the Rosy
Rosary beads give you God’s help

15. Pocket full of posies
A pocket full of posies was used to stop the odor of rotting bodies, which was once thought to cause the plague.
Also used by doctors to protect them from the infected plague patients.

17. Ashes, ashes!
The church burned the dead when burying them became to laborious.

18. We all fall down!
Death

19. Do you still think Ring Around the Rosy is a nice cute song for kids?