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Title: THE BUBONIC PLAGUE


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THE BUBONIC PLAGUE
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WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
  • . Erupted in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320s.
  • . Spread through Asia and Europe during 1347-1352
  • . The Black Death

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HOW THE DISEASE SPREAD?
  • Black rats carrying deadly flies.
  • 25 million people died in just under five years
    between 1347 and 1352.
  • In some cities, as many as 800 people died every
    day.

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WHAT THE DISEASE DID?
  • Three forms
  • Bubonic 75 high fever
  • Flea bite
  • pneumonic 90-95 infected lungs
  • Breathing on someone
  • Coughing, Headache
  • septicemic 100 internal bleeding
  • Flea bite, Black bumps

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HOW THEY TRIED TO STOP IT
  • Most medical workers left in fear of getting
    plague.
  • Thought disease came from air.
  • Stopped ships from coming to harbor.
  • Rang church bells

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HOW THEY TRIED TO AVOID IT
  • They ran away.
  • Sat between two fires.
  • Handkerchiefs were dipped in aromatic oils, to
    cover the face when going out.

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WHAT WAS DONE WITH BODIES
  • Bodies littered the streets.
  • Dug big holes and piled bodies in.

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Hygiene
  • Thought water was unhealthy
  • Changing shirts considered washing self

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RING AROUND THE ROSIE
  • red ring that developed around the sores that
    characterized a victim of the plague.
  • cover the smell of dead
  • deteriorating black lungs and the decomposing
    bodies of the Europeans.
  • Dieing

Ring Around the Rosie a pocket Full of Posies
Ashes, ashes We all fall down.
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