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The Bubonic Plague - Online Term Paper

The Bubonic Plague

The first symptoms of are headache, vomiting, nausea,
aching joints and a feeling of ill health. The lymph nodes of the groin or
of the armpit or neck suddenly start to become swollen and painful. The
pulse and respiration rate of a bubonic plague victim is increased, and the
victim will become listless and exhausted. The buboes will swell until they
are approximately the size of a chicken egg. If a case is nonfatal than the
temperature will begin to fall in about five days, and approaches normal in
about two weeks, but in fatal cases death will probably occur within four
days.

How was the plague transmitted into England? There is much controversy
concerning the exact method by which ...

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and debatable, it is suggested they
all played a role. There is evidence to support that plague was caught from
baggage and bales of clothes and cloth, as in Eyam in Derbyshire in 1665.
There is also existing evidence that human transmission is solely
responsible. The spread of the plague across the country was far too rapid
to be accounted for by wild rodents in the countryside, and it is human
transport which explains its movement along the major trade routes, usually
by ship(British port to port), or on main roads and navigable rivers.
Nevertheless, it is reasonable to assume that rodent transmission played a
part in local village to village contamination.

The bubonic plague struck England in 1665. Since, the occurrence of the
plague was so unexpected only 14th century preventive measures could be
taken. The homeless people were the first to feel the great effects of the
plague. They did not have any money and so when the plague struck them they
were basically in a hopeless ...

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Added: 3/9/2006 12:38:19 PM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Free Paper
Words: 581
Pages: 3

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