antibiotics are the cure to the bubonic plague.
what is the cure to the bubonic plague?
antibiotics
plague is caused by the bacterium "yersinia pesti" and is most commonly transmitted through infected fleas. there are three types of plague: bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic. bubonic plague is the most well-known type. this type of plague results in swollen lymph nodes that are called buboes. this type of plague is treatable with antibiotics, but if not treated effectively, the infection can spread to different parts of the body. pneumonic plague occurs when plague infects the lungs and is transmissible person to person through infected droplets. this form of plague is very deadly. septicemic plague occurs when plague enters the blood. skin and tissues turn black and die, and bleeding into skin and organs often occurs. this form of plague is also deadly. pneumonic plague and septicemic plague often occur when bubonic plague goes untreated and are difficult to diagnose.
21st century madagascar plague outbreaks
in addition to arguing that the rat population was insufficient to account for a bubonic plague pandemic, sceptics of the bubonic plague theory point out that the symptoms of the black death are not unique (and arguably in some accounts may differ from bubonic plague); that transference via fleas in goods was likely to be of marginal significance; and that the dna results may be flawed and might not have been repeated elsewhere or were not replicable at all, despite extensive samples from other mass graves. other arguments include the lack of accounts of the death of rats before outbreaks of plague between the 14th and 17th centuries; temperatures that are too cold in northern europe for the survival of fleas; that, despite primitive transport systems, the spread of the black death was much faster than that of modern bubonic plague; that mortality rates of the black death appear to be very high; that, while modern bubonic plague is largely endemic as a rural disease, the black death indiscriminately struck urban and rural areas; and that the pattern of the black death, with major outbreaks in the same areas separated by 5 to 15 years, differs from modern bubonic plague—which often becomes endemic for decades with annual flare-ups.
black death