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.