animal/personal, and made the air

infecting it with a infected. The

deadly dose of spreading of the
yersinia pestis. plague was not
In 1665, on the The flea was the helped by the fact
back of a rat, The main cause of the that London was
Black Plague plague but many overcrowded at the
arrived in London. other factors time. 75,000
Little did people helped the plague people lived in a
know that this spread a lot faster. space no bigger
would soon wipe than two square
out a third of their miles. In these
population. times you could
find a dozen
On the back of the people sleeping on
rat lived a flea; the same floor of
inside that flea one room and in
Magnified picture of flea
lived bacteria many urban
called yersinia houses even the
pestis. Once the In the 1600’s it was animals would
flea that is infected common practice share the house
with the bacteria for people to dump with residents.
fed on an animal, their waste in the
the bacteria street in a large Once someone
entered the fleas’ gutter which would had caught the
bloodstream and it carry it to the plague, there were
multiplied inside its Thames River. three types of
body. This blocked Blockages of these black plague they
its oesophagus gutters were could have, each
making it frequent. When the killing people in
extremely thirsty. plague arrived this vicious ways. The
This caused the filth just helped the most common form
flea to bite black plague of plague was
continuously to spread faster. known as the
quench its thirst. Bodies were also bubonic plague.
But each animal dumped in the The symptoms
the flea fed on, it waste and carried were enlarged
passed the the plague right buboes around the
bacteria onto the through the town armpits, neck or
groin, depending 2
on where they had breathing in the
been bitten. Symptoms plague. The
Regardless of included sputum symptoms took 1-7
where the buboes tinted blood, days to appear.
develop they sputum is saliva The rarest form of
varied in size, from mixed with mucus the plague was the
the size of an coming from the septicemic plague.
almond to the size respiratory system. Everyone who
of an orange. They caught this form of
‘..Would
were extremely the plague had no
soon wipe
painful and chance of survival.
out a third
sometimes known The symptoms
of their
to make strange were a high fever
population’
gurgling noises. and skin turned
Victims suffered deep shades of
from headaches, As the victim got purple. Victims
nausea, aching closer to death the would usually die
joints, fever and sputum became the same day that
vomiting. Once free flowing and the symptoms
they were infected, bright red. appeared.
the symptoms took This form of plague
1-7 days to was spread by By Chantelle Blakeley
appear. The victims coughing
second most and other people
commonly seen
form of the plague Victims covered in buboes
was the
pneumonic plague.
This was less
common than the
bubonic plague
because the
victims usually
died before they
could go anywhere
else as there was
inefficiency of
transportation. The
pneumonic plague 3
attacked the lungs.