Black Death
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- 14th Century Before...
- I have been informed that there is a disease spending
- MMMMM!!!!
- Sir, there's someone sick downstairs and I don't know how to treat him
- Throw it through the cannons!!
- My lord, do you think the Jews are causing this disease on the docks?
- Yes, and we are hunting them for me to tell us!!
- It is believed that the Black Death began in the 14th century and spread quickly through the regions of the Mediterranean basin and the rest of Europe in a few years, and is believed to have started in the city of Caffa.
- "Many villages.. have now become quite [empty]. No one is left in the houses, for the people are dead... And truly, many of these [villages] will now forever be empty."
- Transmission occurred through ships and people who transported the fateful agents, rats and infected fleas, between the goods or in their own bodies, and thus spread the plague, without realizing it, wherever they arrived.
- My lady, the king is getting worse from that disease, and we don't know what to do!!
- No no no !!
- It was said that it was the Mongols who extended the contagion to the besieged by throwing their dead by catapults into the walls, but it is more likely that the bacteria would penetrate through rats infected with fleas on their backs. Taking the bacilli with them to the destination points, in Italy, from where it spread throughout the rest of the continent.
- Cursed those who swallowed this disease
- NOOOOO!!! MY SONNN!!!
- Understanding today the impact that the Black Death had on the mentality of 14th-century Europeans is complicated. Between 1347 and 1351, the disease killed about 70 million people worldwide.
- Medicine was not prepared to fight the disease. It was until 1988 that scientists managed to isolate the bacteria that killed people in this plague, and discovered that it was yersinia pestis, the same strain that eight centuries later would be called the black plague.
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