Sentences with phrase «as bubonic»

Also known as bubonic or septicemic plague, this highly contagious bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis is the «Black Death» responsible for killing one - third to one - half of the world's population in Europe and Asia in the late 1340s.

Fleas are a nuisance but can also transmit diseases to people such as bubonic plague, murine typhus and spotted fever.

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Some basic information during the Bubonic Plague would have been helpful, such as information about quarantining people.

But Wittenberg went on its way, as yet largely undisturbed except by the bubonic plague which was raging just now; two hundred students left Wittenberg temporarily late in 1516 for their homes, or to stay elsewhere for a while till the plague should move on.

As it has countless times in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a tiny speck of a planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.

Researchers could now see the culprits and distinguish between similar diseases such as anthrax, cholera and, yes, bubonic plague, which was isolated in 1894 and named Yersinia pestis in honor of Swiss microbiologist Alexandre Yersin.

That epidemic, almost certainly bubonic plague, rimmed the entire Mediterranean at least as far west as Marseille and killed millions.

Among them: 500 - plus Oriental rat fleas, notorious for their role in transmitting the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death.

Known as the Black Death, bubonic plague killed millions of people in Europe during a series of outbreaks during the Middle Ages.

These are the «bad» bacteria in your GI tract and are most responsible for diseases such as bacterial meningitis, cholera, bubonic plague and certain kinds of venereal diseases.

The spread of the Great Mortality (Bubonic plague, or as it was later known, «The Black Death») inspired all manner of medical trial and error, as Europe struggled to stay ahead of the speedy and deadly epidemic.

During this time the bubonic plague was also of great concern killing millions world wide as it was often spread by rats harboring fleas that carried the infection.

Additionally, it should be worth pointing out that the extirpation of cats was an important factor in the spread of bubonic plague in Europe, due to the absence of cats as predators upon the plague - infected rodent populations of the continent.

Cats contract bubonic plague in the same manner as humans, from yersina pestis bacteria carried by a flea whose natural hosts are rodents.

These pests are a nuisance to your dog or cat, but even worse, they can carry tapeworms, heartworms, and diseases such as Lyme, Bartonella (also known as cat - scratch disease), West Nile Virus, leptospirosis, and even bubonic plague.

Fleas cause several diseases, such as tapeworms, flea allergy dermatitis, and even can transmit the bubonic plague!

External parasites such as ticks and fleas transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, bubonic plague, and other serious diseases.

Fleas are also capable of transmitting bubonic plague from rodent to rodent as well as from rodent to human.

With people, fleas can transmit diseases such as cat scratch fever (bartonella) and the bubonic plague.

They carry diseases (such as deadly bubonic plague), cause weakness, allergic skin reactions, anemia and even death in weaker animals, if left untreated.

This ship of the desert is what connected China, the Arabian Peninsula and Europe for thousands of years — a route known as the Silk Road, transporting not only silk and perfume but technology, religion and the sneaky bubonic plague.

Bubonic shapes are encased in swirling, psychedelic glazes that slide over stained, porous clay, evoking mundane Santa Fe exteriors as if seen on an acid trip.

The title refers to a Viennese plague column from the 17th century, in which the bubonic plague is represented as a witch; the victory over disease is imagined as the conquering of an unruly and malignant femininity.

They have not yet had the same impact as the Black Death — but as we saw in New Orleans in 2005, it does not take the bubonic plague to destroy social order and functional infrastructure in a financially complex and impoverished society... Once you understand the transition in this way, the need is not for a supercomputed Five Year Plan — but a project, the aim of which should be to expand those technologies, business models and behaviours that dissolve market forces, socialise knowledge, eradicate the need for work and push the economy towards abundance.

Bubonic plague breaks out and the town is cut off from the rest of the world for months on end as thousands succumb to horrible deaths.

As the BBC reported in May, scientists suspect smallpox and the bubonic plague are trapped in Siberian ice, too — an abridged history of devastating human sickness, left out like egg salad in the Arctic sun.