WANTED:
Black Plague
Description: microscopic bacilli
colony formation in chains (streptobacilli)
Wanted for: the deaths of 25 million people
How many victims: 25 million deaths
How can you get it: fleas or black rats
How to prevent from getting it: Don’t mess with dead animals, avoid mice and rats, try not to get bitten by other insects (use repellent), don’t have fleas at your house
What to do if You get it: Make sure that you get antibiotics within 24 hours to prevent symptoms
How to see it: The doctors would take some blood and look for the bacteria or other microorganisms in your blood stream, they take some fluid from your lymph nodes and watch for the bacteria, fungi and more, or they test your lungs or the tubes that carry air to the lungs and look for organisms that cause infection.
The Signs/ the Host Stages: You will develope a fever of 103-106, have chills, have a fast and irregular pulse, high blood pressure, have a horrible psychological state, lymph nodes, spleen, and liver will become enlarged, you might be tired, muscle aches, confused, coordination issues, restless, mood swings.
Treatments: Streptomycin, gentamicin, doxycycline, or ciprofloxacin are the antibiotics recommended by Lewisgale Hospital, and people who have it must be quarantined immediately to prevent the spread of the disease.
When did it start: It started in the mid fourteenth century in asia then it spread to Europe killing a third of Europe. It was the most feared of all diseases. It is very contagious and if anyone has it people should stay 3 feet away.
●Bubonic only affects animals not plants
●People did not know if it was the bubonic plague killing one third of the population it just sounded like the symptoms to scientists.
Stain: Wayson Stain- Methylene blue stain used to diagnose the plague
Stages of life:
1. The flea drinks the blood of a rat the carries the plague
2. The bacteria multiplies in the fleas stomach
3. Gut is clogged with bacteria
4. Flea bites human
5. Human is infected
Work cited
"Plague." The New York Times. The New York Times, 9 July 2011. Web. 08 Mar. 2017.
Google search
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