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6 giorni fa · The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas.
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Bubonic plague: 25–50 million 30–60% of European population:...
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5 giorni fa · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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- It is not known for certain how many people died during the Black Death. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plag...
- The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely...
- The plague that caused the Black Death originated in China in the early to mid-1300s and spread along trade routes westward to the Mediterranean an...
- Yersinia causes three types of plague in humans: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Although there is DNA evidence that Yersinia was present in vi...
- The effects of the Black Death were many and varied. Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which dev...
- The Black Death has also been called the Great Mortality, a term derived from medieval chronicles’ use of magna mortalitas. This term, along with m...
2 giorni fa · e. Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war. [1] Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons", "biological threat agents", or "bio-agents ...
26 apr 2024 · bubonic plague. pneumonic plague. sylvatic plague. septicemic plague. plague, infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas. Plague was the cause of some of the most-devastating epidemics in history.
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16 apr 2024 · Yersinia pestis. Alexandre Yersin (born Sept. 23, 1863, Lavaux, near Aubonne, Switz.—died March 1, 1943, Nha Trang, Annam, Indochina [now in Vietnam]) was a Swiss-born French bacteriologist and one of the discoverers of the bubonic plague bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, now called Yersinia pestis.
22 apr 2024 · Bubonic plague is a common type of plague that causes inflammation of the lymphatic system, which protects you from infections. Symptoms include: Aches. Fever and chills. Tender lymph nodes....
