ENT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Brave People, Rickettsia, Orthoptera
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Elderly and kids are less tolerant of bacteria than others. Associated with norway and black rats but black/roof rat is most important. Bubo is full of liquefied white blood cells (pus) Can use antibiotics now because it is a bacterium. Symptoms: fever, subcutaneous hemorrhages that clot (then turns black), and bubo. Plague is dated all the way back to 1000 b. c. The same bacterium also causes 2 other diseases. They also had glasses to cover the eyes. Fatality rate of plague doctors was very high but they made a lot of money. Most animals were not susceptible to plague. Catholic church was coming to be very rich and corrupt because they were. Jews were used as scapegoats for the plague. Cats can usually sustain it but are not usually killed by it advertising indulgences in order to get into heaven quickly. The towns tried to kill all animals to get rid of plague but that resulted in more rats.
