Question 1

how do people get plague?

Accepted Answer

Bites or sick people: The plague is usually bubonic (one catches it from being bit by infected fleas or rodents, and the bacteria infects one's lymph nodes) or pneumonic (one catches it by breathing infected moisture droplets exhaled, sneezed, or coughed out by an infected person or animal, and the bacteria infects one's lungs). Without treatment, pneumonic plague is fatal.

Question 2

does anyone still get the plague?

Accepted Answer

Sure. : It exists in parts of africa and asia and in the southwestern and western parts of the usa.

Question 3

what were the causes of the black plague?

Accepted Answer

The same as now: Septicemic illness due to Yersinia pestis, the plague bacillus.

Question 4

could you get plague from another person?

Accepted Answer

Yes: The plague is usually bubonic (one catches it from being bit by infected fleas or rodents, and the bacteria infects one's lymph nodes) or pneumonic (one catches it by breathing infected moisture droplets exhaled, sneezed, or coughed out by an infected person or animal, and the bacteria infects one's lungs). Without treatment, pneumonic plague is fatal.

Question 5

what are the symptoms of the black plague nowadays?

Accepted Answer

Same as now: Most cases of plague are bubonic (swollen lymph glands).  Some are associated with blood stream spread with blood vessel damage. (black plague) and some spread to the lungs which can facilitate person to person spread.

Question 6

i live in a city, am i more likely to get the plague?

Accepted Answer

No, not in the U.S.: Plague cases in the U.S. number about 10-15 per year, and are usually in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Cases are due to bites from infected fleas or infected rats and other animals. This would mean a rural setting in the U.S.. Urban areas with poor sanitation, overcrowding, and a high rat population are potential plague situations, but urban outbreaks have not been occurring in the U.S.

Question 7

can you tell me if throughout the black plague what were some things people did to keep sanitation?

Accepted Answer

Black Plague: Plague has been recorded since 541 AD when there was no understanding about bacterial infections and how to prevent them. The major sanitation I am aware of was when bodies were removed and buried in the ground.

Question 8

why did the black plague only affect europe?

Accepted Answer

Not true: There are accounts of plaque in various parts of the world in ancient times.  It seems like Europe was affected so strongly because we are Western and so are they.  Plague is principally a function of cities and human close proximity along with poor hygiene which describes Europe at the time of the plague.  It may have been as bad elsewhere but not written about so profusely.

Question 9

how to get bubonic plague?

Accepted Answer

Bubonic Plague: is usually transmitted by the  bite of an infected rat flea, (Xenopsylla cheopis). Rarely transmitted by contact with infected tissue or person to person via cough.
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Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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.

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