The Bubonic Plague Disease Profile
The Bubonic Plague
In this world we’ve seen many forms of death. From natural disasters of unfathomable and devastating proportions to war which shed the untainted blood of soldiers and civilians alike, our mass killings have all been delivered by visibly enormous forces, which have consumed and gratified their lust for life before our very eyes. This was true until the introduction of a killer so small and intangible it left almost an entire nations skeptic and dying, searching for the answers in the heavens and in god. This minute killer was known as the Black Death.
This terrible epidemic exhausted small towns across Europe, including the British Isles, brutally killing an incredible amount of people. The disease had wiped out entire villages leaving dead bodies to decompose within the gutters of streets and corners of allies(Ziegler 17). Though people were introduced to the seriousness of the plague, they were still puzzled as to the causes of the deadly disease. Because of this fact, a group of unconfirmed myths and questionable facts rose concerning the sources of the epidemic for over five centuries(Coulton 493). In the nineteenth century, the causes of the terrifying disease was discovered and the Black Death was no longer unknown. One myth, of the origin of the deadly plague was said to be a result of medieval gas warfare. Yet another myth, stated that the murderous disease was an aftereffect of a great earthquake that occurred in Europe. Scientists even believed that the epidemic was caused by heaps of unburned corpses left in churchyards(Beatty and Marks 80). The last proven cause of the plague was found to be a disease of rats and other related animals(Rowling 186).
One of the myths as to the cause of the Black Plague is an unusual story that was formed by people’s imaginations. One of the possible sources of the epidemic supposedly was born in a terrible war that had occurred between the deadly waters of the Indian Ocean and the sun(Ziegler 14). The immense waters of the dangerous blue ocean were lifted up like a solid wall of concrete to fight the sun. As the wall stood in the middle of the air still touching the base of the water, dangerous vapors began to disperse from the water. The high winds speeded the poisonous fumes out in every direction(Ziegler 14). The plague reached the nearby lands and the epidemic began to...