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Hace 1 día · The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air. [4] [5] One of the most significant events in European history, the Black Death had far-reaching population, economic, and cultural impacts. It was the beginning of the second plague pandemic. [6]
Hace 5 días · 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...
30 de may. de 2024 · 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. It was the disease behind the Black Death of the 14th century, when as much as one-third of Europe ’s population died.
17 de jun. de 2024 · La Peste Negra azotó Europa en el siglo XIV, comenzando en 1347 y causando estragos durante varios años. Los síntomas iniciales incluían bultos negros en las axilas y las ingles, seguidos de...
4 de jun. de 2024 · Bubonic plague, one of three clinical forms of plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis.
7 de jun. de 2024 · Cuando la peste negra asoló Londres a principios de 1665, las autoridades, presas del pánico, ordenaron sacrificar a perros y gatos, creyendo que eran los principales portadores de la enfermedad. Según el Diario del año de la peste (editorial Impedimenta), de Daniel Defoe, se destruyeron “40.000 perros y cinco veces más gatos”.
Hace 1 día · This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included.
