Three Plagues
For various reasons throughout history and throughout the world humans have been devastated by pandemics, epidemics, and endemics that have nearly wiped out populations entirely. This paper will overview just a few of the most devastating of these epidemics which will include the black plague, smallpox, and cholera. Black Plague 1347-1844: The most devastating of all epidemics was the black plague or bubonic plague which actually turned into a pandemic. In 1347 rats and fleas boarded Italian Genoese merchant ships at Caffa on the Black Sea. These ships passed through the Dardanelles, sailed to Messina (Sicily), Pisa, Genoa, Marseilles, and to Egypt. As 1348 wore on trading continued and by then plague had begun striking populations along the Atlantic and Baltic coasts. Then it traveled across fields and reached people living deep in the interior of their countries (Watts 1). Asia, the Middle East, and Europe were greatly devastated by the plague. There are three types of plague; bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. The first symptoms are headache, nausea, vomiting, and aching joints. The lymph nodes of the groin, armpit, and/or neck become painful and swollen to approximately the s
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