Lesson 6 signs and symptoms of the black death
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Signs and Symptoms of the Black Death Lesson 7
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Signs and Symptoms of the Black Death
Lesson 7
What were the symptoms of the Black Plague?
“ In both men and women, it first showed itself by the emergence of buboes in the groin or armpits, often as large as an apple or an egg. The buboes then began to spread in all directions…”
These buboes, or lumps, are symptoms of bubonic plague.
• There was a second form of plague which was even more deadly. This was called pneumonic plague.• Bubonic plague took between 4 and 7
days to kill; pneumonic plague took only 2 days.• Pneumonic plague is much more
infectious because it attacks the lungs. Every time the victim coughs up blood, bacteria are sprayed into the air.
• There was also a third, rarer type of plague, called septicaemic plague.
• This plague sometimes followed on from one of the others… if the victim lived long enough!
• Poisoned blood caused the body to die and turn black.
