HLTB21H3 : HLTA01 - Chapter 4
13 Jan 2013
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Bubonic plague pandemics resulted on both social and economic rising. First bubonic plague 542-543 (justinian plague) Known as the black death, the great dying, or the great pestilence. Not only did the black death break the malthusian stalemate, but it also allowed. Europeans to restructure their society along very different paths. People recognized that the disease was contagious however no one knew the cause. Believed to be a vicious property of the air . Source of the second pandemic was the microbes left over from the first pandemic (the. Justinian plague: justinian plague moved eastward and remained endemic for seven centuries in voles, marmots, and the highly susceptible black rats (central asia) Plague infected rats: moved westward along the caravan routes between asia and the mediterranean, rats boarded the ships and were moved from port to port and country to country. Spread the plague to the human populations that were living in unhealthy, rat-infested communities/ cities.
