GUYS PLEASE HELP! List 3 symptoms of the black (bubonic) plague.

Where does the name “bubonic” come from?

How many people died of plague between the years 542 and 546 AD?

What, originally, did people think caused the plague?

What did communities do to try and stop the spread of plague? Give 2 examples.

What might have led to the end of the plague in London in 1666?

Which English nursery rhyme is actually about the plague?

What antibiotic is currently used to treat plague today?

What were at least 3 significant social and economic effects of the Black Death on European society?

1. Sudden onset of fever or chills, weakness among the body and swollen lymph nodes (buboes)

2. The name bubonic comes from the medieval Latin word bubo via Italian bilbo--meaning a pustule, growth, or swelling.

3. It is estimated to have claimed nearly 100 million victims

4. The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

5. Rubbing onions, herbs or a chopped up snake (if available) on the boils or cutting up a pigeon and rubbing it over an infected body.

6. may have helped end the outbreak by killing many of the rats and fleas who were spreading the plague.

7. Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses is all about the Great Plague

8. Streptomycin is the most effective antibiotic against

9. The plague had large scale social and economic effects, many of which are recorded in the introduction of the Decameron. People abandoned their friends and family, fled cities, and shut themselves off from the world. Funeral rites became perfunctory or stopped altogether, and work ceased being done.

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