The Black death of London
What year did the Black Death first arrive in London?
1348
What type of disease was the Black Death primarily caused by?
A bacterial infection
What bacterium was responsible for the Black Death?
Yersinia pestis
How was the Black Death primarily transmitted?
Infected fleas on rats
What percentage of London’s population is estimated to have died during the Black Death?
50%
Which term refers to the swollen lymph nodes caused by the Black Death?
Buboes
Which area of London was particularly affected by the Black Death?
The Docklands
What measure was often used to try to prevent the spread of the plague?
Quarantining affected households
What was one common symptom of the Black Death?
High fever
What was one primary reason the Black Death spread so quickly in London?
Poor sanitation and overcrowding
what what the black death a combination of?
bubonic and pneumonic plagues
6 mains symptoms of the black death
High fever
Breathing constriction
Opening of swollen buboes
Gangrene of toes fingers lips or nose
Seizures
Extreme exhaustion
Why did the burial of infected bodies contrubute to the spread of disease?
wild animals were able to dig up the shallow graves and eat the infected
Ways the plauge was dealt with
Drinking mercury
strapping raw chicken to buboes
quarantine
self flagellation