how did people attempt to keep the Pestilence from spreading?
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B A N I S H M E N T\n\nS H A M E\n\nC A S T R A T I O N\n\nD I S I N F E C T A N T
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They're trying some of the same things as in other countries. Unfortunately, they have a lot of people that do not believe in modern medicine or known ways to prevent its spread.
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We had a problem with copperheads also and mothballs around the area work great!  Also chickens will kill them and cats.  If you get bit you just need to go to your doctor or emergancy.  Make sure you wear boots when walking about out there!
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I think there's a screw loose in all humans that acts as a form of population control. This, of course, is aggression. For all the sickness and famine and natural disasters, we're still spreading across the globe in a hurry and the failsafe to keep our numbers down is war. Nasty, but it seems to be the case. I could suggest alternatives (Olympic-style competitions to attain land or what have you) but I doubt anyone would adhere to them. Perchance the best hope we have is space travel, whereby the human race can spread as it needs to and will have less need to club each other to death for the sake of a patch of dirt.
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To keep the human population alive and going
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None they'd all Die of Head butting each other too much and the rest of electricution
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The bubonic plague started in China but spread quickly over trading routes to Europe. It started in rats but spread to humans by fleabites. Rats and fleas were everywhere so the disease spread easily, slowing down only in winter when the flea population went dormant. The disease could either attack the lymphatic system, spreading quickly through the body, or the lungs, which led to people choking to death on their own blood. There were, of course, no antibiotics and no natural immunity to this new germ. Because people did not understand how the infection was spread, they couldn't contain it.
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The most common way disease is spread is by the hands.  Other ways are by coming into contact with contaminated objects and surfaces, and by droplet infection (sneezing, coughing).  Body fluids have already been mentioned.
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It was already known that some people produce "come and get me" smells which appeal to the blood-suckers. \n\nRothamsted Research, in Herts, found those less likely to be bitten produced odours which masked these scents. \n\nThe natural repellent could be used to protect everyone from the bugs, suggests the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) The spread of bird flu from Asia to eastern Europe and now west Africa has increased the chance the virus will mutate and set off a pandemic, the U.N. bird flu chief said. \nEach day the possibility of an Avian Flu pandemic comes dangerously closer. We want to help you and your family prepare before it strikes . The virus has now spread into 42 countries and the list is growing every day.  There is human-to-human spread (in spite of what you may have heard). The virus is seeking efficiency in human infection. There are now documented 'mixes' with other viruses. Because of Katrina, you would think governments would be handling this differently. But no, ultimately, nothing changes. There will be two types of people: Those who accept the fact that they are on their own, and those who think someone will come to save them and their family.\nThe progression of Avian Influenza into an efficient human-to-human form becomes statistically more likely every day. No one can prevent this epidemic, but we want to keep our families safe and protected in the event that the outbreak occurs. We are here for the realists. Helping others get past the obstacles and to create a plan for both avoiding infection and for having the proper supplies is our goal. We have put quite a lot of thought and preparation into what we (and many of our greatest scientists) believe may be inevitable.  \n\n \n\nIf a SuperFlu sweeps the globe, who will haul away the garbage? Who will grow, package, and transport food and other necessities? Stock and sell the groceries we need to survive? Protect us from criminals? Keep electricity, gas, and water flowing? We have only a small portion of the medical infrastructure we need to handle this. Within days, our health care system will be completely overwhelmed. Are you one of the people who can make intelligent decisions, and make it through this?\n\nGoto this site it will help you to prepare:\nhttp://www.planforflu.com/\n\nI hope this helped.....\n\nDon
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Some people are just lazy.  It could also be that they are uninformed or weren't taught to wash their hands when they were children.  All sorts of diseases can be spread this way, but the biggest threat/concern would be Hepatitis A, which is very easily spread this way.
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why help them at all??? we have a population problem its growing out of control and its survival of the fittest! let the weak die...strong survive
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Around 430 - 426 B.C., a devastating plague, which some believe to have been typhoid fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader Pericles. The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in the ancient world. Ancient historian Thucydides also contracted the disease, but he survived to write about the plague. His writings are the primary source on this outbreak. The cause of the plague has long been disputed, with modern academics and medical scientists considering epidemic typhus the most likely cause. However, a study in 2006 by Manolis Papagrigorakis of the University of Athens detected DNA sequences similar to those of the bacterium responsible for typhoid fever.[5] Other scientists have disputed the findings, citing serious methodologic flaws in the dental pulp-derived DNA study. In addition, as the disease is most commonly transmitted through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions, it is an unlikely cause of a widespread plague, emerging in Africa and moving into the Greek city states, as reported by Thucydides.\n\nIn 1860-1900, typhoid fever mortality rate in Chicago averaged 65 per 100,000 people a year. The worst year was 1891, when the typhoid death rate was 174 per 100,000 persons.[2]\n\nIn 1897, Edward Almwroth Wright developed the effective vaccine.
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how not to become sick
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Tough call, even if the question was about all humans not just all living things.\nZen monks would place rings on their staffs in order than they could jangle and allow small lifeforms to get out of their way so as not to be stepped on.\nTheir are no rings small enough to warn microbes and I am not sure that we should avoid killing some bacteria what might spoil our food or make our children sick.  (Do you wash your hands?)\nAnd what about those things which are not exactly alive?  Like viruses?\nWe do not kill every bug which enters our homes.  Some people are fanatical about this and others live with spiders and ants crawling all over the place.  Most of us would kill lifeforms we believe to be a threat to us or our families.  Some might even capture and release some species (including mice and larger lifeforms).\nSome things to consider include:  Are you affected by commercials which try to make you believe that you need to give someone money to buy a product which will kill some lifeforms to make you healthier or happier?  What happens to the lifeforms that become resistant?  Do you really want polio and smallpox living among humans?  How about 'skeeter and the west Nile virus?  or Maleria?\nLife is not simple.  Not for bugs.  Not for humans.\nAt least humans can think about what they are doing before they make a choice.
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The three forms of the Black Death were transmitted two ways. The septicemic and bubonic plague were transmitted with direct contact with a flea, while the pneumonic plague was transmitted through airborne droplets of saliva coughed up by bubonic or septicemic infected humans.\n\n     The bubonic and septicemic plague were transmitted by the the bite of an infected flea. Fleas, humans, and rats served as hosts for the disease. The bacteria (Yesenia pest is) multiplied inside the flea blocking the flea's stomach causing it to be very hungry. The flea would then start voraciously biting a host. Since the feeding tube to the stomach was blocked , the flea was unable to satisfy its hunger. As a result, it continued to feed in a frenzy. During the feeding process, infected blood carrying the plague bacteria , flowed into the Hyman's wound. The plague bacteria now had a new host. The flea soon starved to death.\n\n     The pneumonia plague was transmitted differently than the other two forms . It was transmitted through droplets sprayed from the lungs and mouth of an infected person. In the droplets were the bacteria that caused the plague. The bacteria entered the lungs through the windpipe and started attacking the lungs and throat. \n___________________________________________
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GET A PERRMIT... go to the library so you don't blow yourself up, then basicly make a still.\n \n "Hill" people have been doing it for hundreds of years.