The Black Death

There were many treatments tried to heal the infected but nothing would work. There was no known treatment for the plague all the people could do was suffer until they died because that was most likely your fate. Many doctors used their patients as test subjects to find cures but none were found.

Many people tried everything to keep the plague from spreading farther than it did. The officials of the countries threatened by the plague had to quarantine cities from ships and caravans. The officials did this because they wanted to limit the plague from spreading from the city it was occurring in.

The plague was very devastating to the economy. When the plague struck, Europe was working on the feudal system. The feudal system was where the peasants did the nobles jobs because the nobles wouldn’t do their jobs themselves. When half of the population was wiped out the workers of the nobles died and it sent the country into turmoil. Everybody was affected economically just because the products couldn’t get out for shipping (Out of the Middle Ages). The economic hardships made recovering from the plague much more difficult than it already was.

The plague was a terrible disease, but it is still occurring today as well. The plague today is not as bad as it once was because now there are treatments for it. Today you can take antibiotics to get rid of the disease (CDC.gov). If thought to be exposed to the plague than the treatment is to isolate the person and give them Prophylactic antibiotics (CDC.gov). The plague is also avoidable. The best ways to avoid the plague is environmental sanitation, education on how to prevent it and also preventive antibiotic therapy. There are no vaccines in the United States available (CDC.gov). It is also helpful to attempt to eliminate fleas that may be a carrier of the virus to help. The plague is not as harmful as it once was during the renaissance.

The plague is a disease that can be cured if caught early. The plague has about a 14% mortality rate of infected people compared to the 90% of infected people that died during the renaissance. In the United States many people don’t get the plague but those who do are usually cured of it (cdc.gov).

The plague is in many parts of the world these days but has moved around in the past years. The plague is now mostly in Asia. In the Western United States animal plague is occurring and in the Eastern United States it is mostly in Humans. In some countries they are worried about the use of the plague as a weapon of mass destruction because it can be easily given to humans without their knowing (cdc.gov).

The plague is a horrible disease that is very deadly. The plague is a terrible thing that we live with. The Plague is a disease that affects everybody in every way if they have it. The plague during the renaissance was one of the worst times in history killing most of the people at one time. The disease killed almost everyone it touched. Hopefully it will never ever be repeated but unfortunately, it usually does.