Question 1

how can you prevent the spread of the black death or plague the next time it hits?

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Depends: Enough cats might have controlled the rat-borne bubonic plague, but the next worldwide outbreak of deadly disease will probably be a droplet-borne respiratory illness. Until enough immune serum can be harvested, the precautions used in the recent SARS outbreak may serve as a model. And you do a good thing in asking -- because it will happen sooner or later.

Question 2

i have a skin pingmitation which is called vinea viscolor. i am half black and this dead skin rash is seeming to spread fast.  i use liamsel cream.?

Accepted Answer

May need oral med: Tinea versicolor is a common fungal skin infection which has no real medical consequences beyond skin discoloration. Lamsil cream is good, but diffiult to cover all area, especially on back.  Recurrence is common as well, especially if you keep long hair. Consult doc for possible oral med and maintenance treatment--often a medicated shampoo such as nizoral (ketoconazole). Good luck.

Question 3

what was the cause of the black death?

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Plague: Yersinia pestis is the micro-organism that jumps from rats to humans and causes this deadly infection. The social causes had to do with crowding, and I'm told also to cats going out of fashion -- they're our friends as they kill off the rats that carry plague. Genetic archeology has identified the Yersinia subtypes causing each of the great plagues.

Question 4

what were the symptoms of the black death?

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Grim: Bubonic plague first manifested a tiny sore where the flea bit, then the microbes grew in the regional lymph nodes, producing a swelling and ulcer. The microbes would then invade the bloodstream, depleting some of the proteins that keep blood liquid, causing parts of the body to turn black (nose, digits, fingers) and fall off; the aggressive phase traveled as a lung infection like the 'flu.

Question 5

what is the black death?

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Bubonic Plague: "Black Death"  or "The Pestilence" are other names for bubonic plague  which struck in the 1300's

Question 6

what is the modern black death?

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Today's strain: If i understand your question correctly, you are asking about different strains of bubonic plague. People have looked at the genomes of the plague bacillus from today and compared it to the bacilli left in remains of victims of the epidemic in India in the late 1800's, the medieval Black Plague, and that in the ancient world and traced its molecular evolution; all 3 strains still occur in nature.

Question 7

what is the medical name fo the black death?

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Mors nigra: The Black Death was caused by bacteria called Yersinia pestis. The bacteria lived In blood-sucking fleas carried by rats.

Question 8

is it possible to have another "black death" epidemic in modern times?

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Slightly: Coronary artery atherosclerosis has a slight familial  tendency, especially if he died young, but this is largely overridden by your own lifestyle choices and to a lesser extent your willingness to take medications for elevated cholesterols / high blood pressure as needed.  It can usually be prevented regardless of your heredity.

Question 9

could you explain when was the real, and effective cure for the black death found?

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1943: Streptomycin, the best then and now, was discovered at rutgers. If you are interested in medical history, you can read up on the history of plague and decide whether the basis of the catastrophic epidemics of the middle ages were caused by cats becoming unpopular because of medieval superstition.

Question 10

what are similarities between rabies and the black death?

Accepted Answer

Death: is the only similarity.Yersinia pestis, a bacteria transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, causes plague. If diagnosed early, plague can be treated with antibiotics. If the infection reaches the lungs, it can cause pneumonia,  can then be transmitted from  person to person, and is fatal within 24 hours. A recent outbreak in Madagascar has claimed over 40 lives so far. Rabies is a virus transmitted by the bite of an infected animal.  Until recently it has been universally fatal.  A new protocol has allowed some to survive the infection.

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