Sentences with phrase «spreading bubonic»

In response to more deaths, tissue samples were sent to Angel Island for testing to determine if they harbored Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for spreading the bubonic plague.

The rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is the vector most commonly credited with spreading bubonic plague.

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«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.

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.

(Both forms are caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis; pneumonic plague develops when a person with bubonic plague is not treated, and the infection spreads to the lungs.)

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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