Sentences with phrase «of bubonic»

Europe razed almost half its temperate oak -, beech - and birch - woods in the Middle Ages, an onslaught only briefly reversed by an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 14th century.

If you're the guys at Ambient Studios — some of whom worked at Media Molecule on the big - hearted LittleBigPlanet games — it's making a game about Death and the horrors of the bubonic plague.

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.

Through using this resources students should become aware of where the Black Death originated, how it spread to England and what the main characteristics of Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague were.

The atmospheric drama, about faith in the time of the bubonic plague, opened in stateside theaters this spring to little fanfare; it's now available to rent on a variety of formats.

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk -LSB-...]

The film takes place in 1348 during the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England.

And vinegar, in any form, has been used for countless purposes throughout human history, including the disinfection of wounds on the battlefield and the prevention of the bubonic plague; in fact, its medicinal uses date back to Biblical times.

For the past hundreds of years, flea - infested and dirty rats have taken the blame for the spread of the bubonic place throughout medieval Europe, which killed millions of people.

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...

DNA analysis suggests that the Black Death was caused by a strain of bubonic plague that is now probably extinct

The DNA of bubonic plague bacteria, blamed for Europe's great plague of 1348, has turned up in victims of a plague that shook the Roman world in AD 541

Madagascar is one of the countries with the highest incidence of bubonic plague in the world.

They turned out to work similarly to genes in an unrelated bug, Yersinia pestis, the cause of bubonic plague.

Story number 4: A new DNA analysis of King Tut's mummy found not only his DNA, but the DNA of plague bacteria, meaning that he most likely died of bubonic plague.

Plague is endemic in many countries — the United States had 16 cases of bubonic plague in 2015 — but Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Peru are the countries that frequently have serious outbreaks.

He had received a parcel of cloth infested with fleas just 4 days before dying of bubonic plague.

He says: «The whole flea - rodent ecology of plague is what led to major pandemics of the bubonic form of the plague in Europe.»

Ingmar Bergman's famous 1957 movie The Seventh Seal takes place during the 14th century, when Europe is in the midst of a major epidemic of the bubonic plague — the Black Death — which ultimately killed about half the population.

or have dodgy social or political origins, whether it is Jack and Jill who were definitely up to more than drawing water, Goosy goosy gander making snide sideswipes at the Jesuits, Ring a ring o» roses listing the symptoms of bubonic plague or the hokey cokey parodying the Mass..

Ten deadliest natural disasters of the past century 1931 China floods 1976 Tangshan earthquake 1970 Bhola cyclone 1920 Haiyuan earthquake 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 2010 Haiti earthquake 1923 Great Kanto earthquake 2008 Cyclone Nargis 1991 Bangladesh cyclone 1948 Ashgabat earthquake Blizzards 1972 Iran blizzard 2008 Afghanistan blizzard Great Blizzard of 1888 1993 North American Storm Complex Schoolhouse Blizzard Hakko - da Mountains incident Armistice Day Blizzard 2008 Chinese winter storms 1995 Kazakh Blizzard Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 Communicable diseases Black Death Spanish Flu Plague of Justinian Third Pandemic of Bubonic Plague Antonine Plague Asian Flu Other deadly communicable diseases.

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.

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In his tale, the other nations of the world unite and engage in wholesale biological warfare, dropping vials filled with scarlet fever, bubonic plague and cholera on Chinese cities.

Acroyear wrote that «NOTHING in all of human history, with perhaps exception the Bubonic plague -LSB-,] has caused more death than organized religion.»

And I'm also pretty sure that Acroyear's comment about organized religion being the cause of more human deaths than any other reason is absolutely correct (Bubonic plague included).

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.

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.

Scientists who mapped the DNA of the New York City subway system have backed off a claim that they discovered traces of anthrax and bubonic plague at several stations, after federal and city public health officials strongly disputed the findings.

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.

«Secondly it shows that this was, would be a viable route for the spread of those other infectious diseases like Bubonic plague and leprosy and anthrax that people had previously suggested might have been spread between East Asia and Europe along the Silk Road.

Scientists are sequencing a range of genomes, for example, to reconstruct the evolution of Yersinia pestis, the microbe that causes bubonic plague.

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.

Poinar agrees that the most exciting part of the paper is that it solves a longstanding mystery about how the bubonic plague was able to spread so rapidly in the Middle Ages.

Tuberculosis and diarrheal disease had to await the rise of farming, measles and bubonic plague the appearnce of large cities.

THE Black Death infamously wiped out about a third of Europe's population in the 14th century, but until now there was no firm evidence that bubonic plague was the cause.

Buboes give one type of plague its name — bubonic.

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

Virgin first infected mice with the rodent equivalent of these two herpes strains and then exposed them to two types of bacteria: Listeria monocytogenes, a common cause of food poisoning, and Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.

They fell victim to epidemic waves of smallpox, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, diphtheria, typhus, cholera, -LSB-...]

The bacteria cause three different kinds of plague, bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic.

Many kinds of bacteria create so - called pili fibers, including the Escherichia coli responsible for urinary tract infections and the Yersinia pestis bacteria that cause bubonic plague.

One possible example of this was the bubonic plague, which may have been transmitted between rodents and humans.

Molecular palaeopathologist Kirsten Bos found positive results for Yersinia pestis in the teeth of five out of 20 skeletons she examined, confirming this is the bacteria that caused the bubonic plague.

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

The most famous mention of these herbs in this specific combination was by four thieves during the Bubonic Plague.

During the bubonic plague, people used lavender in the sick room to stop the spread of the disease, and people that kept lavender on their person often did not get the illness.

Legend has it that in the early 1600s, when the bubonic plague ravaged Europe, four men made a living of looting the homes of newly deceased persons.

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.

Taking place in the Middle Ages during the Bubonic Plague, Season of the Witch is another lousy Nicholas Cage film.