2. The Culprits

3. The Disease Cycle Human is infected!
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the bacteria.
Bacteria
multiply in
flea’s gut.
Human is infected!
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound.
Flea’s gut clogged with bacteria.

4. 1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople!

5. Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.
The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemic Form: almost 100% mortality rate.

6. Lancing a Buboe

7. Video clip 1

8. Part 2

9. Medieval Art & the Plague
Bring out your dead!

10. Medieval Art & the Plague An obsession with death.

11. Attempts to Stop the Plague
“Leeching”
A Doctor’s Robe

12. Attempts to Stop the Plague
Flagellanti: Self-inflicted “penance” for our sins!

13. Attempts to Stop the Plague
Pograms against the Jews
“Golden Circle” obligatory badge
“Jew” hat

14. Death Triumphant !: A Major Artistic Theme

15. Ring a ring of roses – rhyme? Myth?
"Ring-a-ring of roses, A pocketful of posies' Attischo, Attischo, We all fall down
THE ROSES ARE DESCRIBING THE LARGE RED SWELLING OF THE LYMPH NODES HE POSIES HAD A PLEASANT SMELL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HOLD THE INFECTED AIR AWAY. SNEEZING WITH ALL THE ASH WE ALL FALL DOWN DEAD!!

16. The Mortality Rate
35% - 70%
25,000,000 dead !!!

17. Task – Public notice
Write your own public notice to warn of the effects and spread of the plague
This must be completed on a newsletter template in pages.
Include:
What is the plague?
How is it spread?
What are the symptoms?
How did people try and stop the spread?
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