HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Phlegm, Black Sheep, Eau De Cologne
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Chapter 4: an ancient plague, the black death. In 1346, the second pandemic began, known as the back death, great dying, and great pestilence. Today, 600 years later we know that the source of the second pandemic was microbes left over from the first pandemic ( the justinian plague), which has moved eastward and remained endemic for seven centuries. Rats boarded ships, moving from port to port, and country to country, spreading the plague to all of human population. The black death is associated with florence, and because it felt the full impact of the epidemic it is sometimes called the plague of florence. People believed that the only way to get rid of the disease was to isolate the sick. They didn"t realize that the microbes were the cause of the infectious diseases that led to the institution of crude and generally ineffectual public health measures.
