GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Scientific American, Common Cold, Hand Washing
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Dogs, cats, chickens, oxen, do(cid:374)ke(cid:455)(cid:859)s sheep showed the saw symptoms and died of the same disease. And almost none, or very few, who showed these symptoms, were cured. The symptoms were the following: a bubo in the going groin, where the thigh meets the trunk; or a small swelling under the armpit; sudden fever; spitting blood: the disease remained and soon death was everywhere. Lawyers refused to come and make out wills for the dying. Friars and nuns were left to care for the sic, the monasteries and convents were soon deserted, as they were stricken too. Bodies were left empty houses, and there was no one to give them a. 2: fleas feed infected rat and they become infectious, when rat dies fleas moved on. I opened the window: and in-flu enza. It allegedly killed 8 million in may of 1918.