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    The Black Death was a devastating pandemic that spread across Europe between 1346 and 1353. It resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people. The most common symptoms were swollen and bleeding lymph nodes in the groin, neck, and armpits. It is now known to have been caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which was likely transmitted from infected rodents to humans via flea bites. Though the cause was unknown at the time, some believed it was divine punishment for sins. This led to persecution of groups like Jews, with thousands massacred. The disease ultimately spread much faster than later plagues, though it is now understood to have been caused by a bacterium rather than

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    The Black Death was a devastating pandemic that spread across Europe between 1346 and 1353. It resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people. The most common symptoms were swollen and bleeding lymph nodes in the groin, neck, and armpits. It is now known to have been caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which was likely transmitted from infected rodents to humans via flea bites. Though the cause was unknown at the time, some believed it was divine punishment for sins. This led to persecution of groups like Jews, with thousands massacred. The disease ultimately spread much faster than later plagues, though it is now understood to have been caused by a bacterium rather than

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    The Black Death was a devastating pandemic that spread across Europe between 1346 and 1353. It resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people. The most common symptoms were swollen and bleeding lymph nodes in the groin, neck, and armpits. It is now known to have been caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which was likely transmitted from infected rodents to humans via flea bites. Though the cause was unknown at the time, some believed it was divine punishment for sins. This led to persecution of groups like Jews, with thousands massacred. The disease ultimately spread much faster than later plagues, though it is now understood to have been caused by a bacterium rather than

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    BLACK DEATH

    The Disastrous Mortal Disease


    ABDUL HAYEE
    Black Death

    Black Death spread across Europe in


    the years 1346-53

    It resulted deaths of an estimated 75


    to 200 million people
    SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

    The most commonly noted symptom was the appearance of buboes (or
    gavocciolos) in the groin, the neck and armpits, which oozed pus and bled
    when opened

    bleeding (blood may not be able to clot)

    skin turning black (gangrene)


    CAUSES
    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 transmitted from
    rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas.
    Black Death – God's Punishment
    Because they did not understand the biology of the
    disease, many people believed that the Black Death
    was a kind of divine punishment – retribution for sins
    against God such as greed, blasphemy, heresy,
    fornication and worldliness.
    By this logic, the only way to overcome the plague was
    to win God’s forgiveness. Some people believed that
    the way to do this was to purge their communities of
    heretics and other troublemakers – so, for example,
    many thousands of Jews were massacred in 1348 and
    1349. (Thousands more fled to the sparsely populated
    regions of Eastern Europe, where they could be
    relatively safe from the rampaging mobs in the cities.)
    Conclusion
    The Black Death was not a disease of the black rat
    transmitted to humans by fleas

    Black Death, now known as the plague, is spread by a


    bacillus called Yersina pestis. (The French biologist
    Alexandre Yersin discovered this germ at the end of the
    19th century.)

    Despite the thousands who sacrificed their lives assisting


    spiritually or physically the afflicted during the Black Death,
    the church awarded none of them with blessed or saintly
    status

    The Black Death travelled 30 to 100 times faster over land


    than the bubonic plagues of the 20th century
    THANK YOU！

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