The Black Death was a highly contagious mortal disease. It spread across Europe around the 1340s through 50s. The black death killed about 50 million people; up to sixty percent of Europe’s population. The disease comes from a bacteria called Yersinia pestis. The bite of infected fleas and rats as well as person to person transmission made it spread faster.
New trade routes, growth in population and cities, enhanced the outrage of the disease. The opening of trade in Western Europe and China brought a lot of new spices, people, and commodities, but it also brought the pestilence. The plague would wipe villages out and people would go steal their goods like clothes and other materials, because nothing would be thrown away. A factor that help …show more content…
Some ports in Italy began turning away ships suspected of coming from infected areas. Projective actions against plague were established, some included closing the city’s water to suspect vessels. Remote cemeteries were established for plague victims, they were transported and buried in accordance to defined rules. In 1350, they set a rule that all future plague victims and those nursing them would be isolated in a designated house outside the city walls. Quarantine became a strategy for controlling communicable disease outbreaks. Isolation and quarantine raised ethical issues, individual rights have often been trampled in the name of public good. Segregation or isolation to separate persons suspected of being infected has frequently violated the liberty of healthy persons. Mostly lower classes and minority groups have been described to face the most discrimination. Today if a highly contagious disease with high mortality was to occur, it would be handled with both isolation and quarantine strategies. Now in days there’s so much technology it is easy to communicate, and to be informed. Laborites would quickly begin to look for a cure for the disease. I think the rich would probably move to another state or country to avoid the disease. Today we would better react to a plague because of fast communication, and advanced technology. Advanced technology and fast transportation would affect disease
New trade routes, growth in population and cities, enhanced the outrage of the disease. The opening of trade in Western Europe and China brought a lot of new spices, people, and commodities, but it also brought the pestilence. The plague would wipe villages out and people would go steal their goods like clothes and other materials, because nothing would be thrown away. A factor that help …show more content…
Some ports in Italy began turning away ships suspected of coming from infected areas. Projective actions against plague were established, some included closing the city’s water to suspect vessels. Remote cemeteries were established for plague victims, they were transported and buried in accordance to defined rules. In 1350, they set a rule that all future plague victims and those nursing them would be isolated in a designated house outside the city walls. Quarantine became a strategy for controlling communicable disease outbreaks. Isolation and quarantine raised ethical issues, individual rights have often been trampled in the name of public good. Segregation or isolation to separate persons suspected of being infected has frequently violated the liberty of healthy persons. Mostly lower classes and minority groups have been described to face the most discrimination. Today if a highly contagious disease with high mortality was to occur, it would be handled with both isolation and quarantine strategies. Now in days there’s so much technology it is easy to communicate, and to be informed. Laborites would quickly begin to look for a cure for the disease. I think the rich would probably move to another state or country to avoid the disease. Today we would better react to a plague because of fast communication, and advanced technology. Advanced technology and fast transportation would affect disease