The Bubonic Plague!

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The Bubonic Plague!

• By
• Erik Tye
• And
• Colton Martin

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Explanation of the Bubonic Plague

• The Bubonic Plague or The Black Death was a
  fatal disease spread by fleas, which lived on
  rats and humans at this time.
• It was a pandemic. (Spread world wide)
• It produces black blotches on the skin, hence the
  name The Black Plague.

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Scientific and the common name of the Bubonic
Plague

• Yersinia pestis is the scientific name for the
  bubonic plague.
• The Black Plague is the common name for this
  organism.

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The Anatomy

• Yersinia pestis, the deadly bacterium that causes
  bubonic plague, kills by cutting off a cell's
  ability to communicate with other immune cells
  needed to fight off the bacterial invasion.
• YopJ, the protein Yersinia uses to block this
  signaling process, is one of six proteins
  injected by the bacteria into immune cells called
  macrophages.

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The Arrival!

• It arrived in October of 1347.
• It started in Asia, then traveled to Europe, by
  rat infested Italian ships trading goods across
  the Mediterranean Sea.

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Where it showed up

• It started in Asias Gobi desert
• Then it took very little time to reach Europe

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When, Where, and Whom was it isolated

• The year was 1346, the Black Plague entered the
  Crimean shore of the Black sea.
• Sailors aboard the Italian vessel was infected or
  already dying from the plague.

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Symptoms

• A painful bulging welt would appear, if bitten by
  an infected rat or flea.
• More painful welts would appear within 3 days,
  these welts were so painful that people would die
  within 4 days of the infection.
• Black spots would appear also.

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Transmitted

• Fleas and rats
• Humans that were infected
• Once a flea is on the host, it begins to feeds on
  the hosts blood. The flea eats continuously
  until the blood cant travel to the blocked
  stomach. Then the flea vomits, and spits the
  tainted blood back to the host.

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Life Cycle
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Effect on society
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Cure or Prevention?

• Back in the 1300s, there was no cure and not so
  much of a prevention available.
• The only prevention then was to stay away from
  anyone and everyone that was infected.
• Kill all the rats and fleas in your town before
  the plague came.

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Other Facts

• On April 19, 2006 CNN news and others reported a
  case of the plague in Los Angeles, it was the
  first case since 1984.
• On June 28, 2006, AZ Central had reported a case
  of the plague in a cat.
• In New Mexico, there were 2 plague deaths in
  2006. the first fatalities in 12 years.