Sentences with phrase «from bubonic»

The preferred dog of 14th century royalty, these pups would sleep in bed with their royal owners to attract fleas, to help protect them from bubonic plague.

During the Middle Ages, the Black Death (1347 - 1351) ravaged Europe with death from bubonic plague.

All of which means that story number 4, about King Tut dying from bubonic plaque is TOTALL.......

If you wish to obsess on a group of people which compromises roughly the same amount of people who died from bubonic plague since 1945, you go girl.

Not exact matches

At Senior Prom a few months ago he got that sad last - minute phone call from Edna Pimple, saying she had come down with a bad case of bubonic plague and could not go with him like her mother pushed her into.

The bubonic types responsible for the medieval Black Death and recent outbreaks emerged about 3,000 years ago from a mutation that made Y. pestis flea - borne.

Most are bubonic plague, transmitted from rats to humans by the bite of a flea.

But researchers now realize that it probably wasn't until the end of the Bronze Age that the bacteria evolved from a less virulent species that may have spread more like the flu, tuberculosis, or AIDS than the bubonic plague, which is transmitted through flea bites to the skin.

From the avian flu to the bubonic plague, disease outbreaks have been a constant in human history.

This poor island nation is regularly hit by plague outbreaks, but they are typically the relatively less dangerous bubonic form, transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, and occur largely in remote areas.

The great plague expert Wu Lien - teh and his associates established during the Third Pandemic that bubonic plague was not transmitted from person to person; it required a bite from the Y. pestis - infected flea to transmit the disease.

Researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have determined the three - dimensional structure of invasin, a protein that allows a close relative of the bubonic plague bacterium to...

Bubonic plague is generally not spread from person to person, except through direct contact with fluids from the swellings.

Cautions Prairie dogs are very susceptible to bubonic plague, acquiring it from fleas infected with plague bacteria.

The name bubonic comes from the word bubo, which is a fancy word for enlarged lymph node.

Many of these parasites can harbor diseases ranging from Lyme disease to the Bubonic plague — the same bacteria that caused «The Black Death» centuries ago.

The report mentioned some of the diseases that could be passed from pets to humans, which included the bubonic plague.

Understandably, hotels require dogs to be flea - free, something we all aspire to anyway to keep dogs free of the many problems fleas can cause, everything from flea allergy dermatitis to anemia to Bubonic Plague (yep, there have been cases here in Texas the last few years).

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

The most famous historical example of disease was the Bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, which was spread from the fleas of infected rats.

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

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.

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.