How did bubonic plague start?
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/the8.htm\n\nhttp://www.rotten.com/library/history/plague/\n\nhttp://www.onlineessays.com/essays/history/his058.php
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It has also been called "white-band disease," "white death," and "stress-related necrosis," but the roles of environmental stress and pathogens in the loss of tissue have not been adequately investigated.\nhttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mccarty_and_peters/coral/plague.htm\n\ntuberculosis, esp. pulmonary tuberculosis.\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/white+plague\n\nNoun\n1. pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague, tuberculosis, TB, T.B. \nusage: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body \n2. drug addiction, white plague, addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation \nusage: an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) \nhttp://www.infoplease.com/thesaurus/white%20plague\n\nThe White Plague is also a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, about a molecular biologist, John Roe O'Neill, whose wife and children are killed when a bomb planted by the IRA goes off. Driven insane by loss, he plans a genocidal revenge, creating a plague that kills only women, and releases it in Ireland (for supporting the terrorists), England (for oppressing the Irish and giving them a cause), and Libya (for training said terrorists); he then demands that the governments of the world quarantine those countries and let the plague run its course, so they will lose what he has lost; if they don't, he has more plagues to release.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague
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They used leeches to draw blood from people.  They thought illnesses were caused by poisoned blood and getting it out would cure the illness.
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i beleive it was a plague sent from above.
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They sure can! Like the dreaded Hantavirus!! \nIt is prevalent in the four corners region of they United States. \n\nBubonic plague can be carried by the fleas mice have, so try to avoid contact with them altogether. \n\nhere are some tips to avoid the plague and the hantavirus - \n    *  Do not pick up or touch dead animals.\n    * If plague has recently been found in your area, report any observations of sick or dead animals to the local health department or law enforcement officials.\n    * Make your home rodent-proof. Eliminate sources of food and nesting places for rodents around homes, work places, and recreation areas; remove brush, rock piles, junk, cluttered firewood, and potential food supplies, such as pet and wild animal food.\n    * If you anticipate being exposed to rodent fleas, apply insect repellents to clothing and skin, according to label instructions, to prevent flea bites. Wear gloves when handling potentially infected animals.\n    * If you live in areas where rodent plague occurs, treat pet dogs and cats for flea control regularly and do not allow these animals to roam freely.\n    * Treat rodent sites around your home with flea powder or a suitable insecticide.\n    * Health authorities may use appropriate chemicals to kill fleas at selected sites during animal plague outbreaks.\n    * Take your pet to a veterinarian if it becomes ill with a high fever and/or an abscess (open sore). Pets with plague can transmit the illness to humans.\n    * See a physician if you become ill with a high fever and/or a swollen lymph node. Remember, plague is treatable.
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There's no way of knowing. It could be war, plague, or an astrological event. Whichever comes first.
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it all started when God created the heavens and the earth.  He didnt want people to have sex between species so he made the aids virus.  well some genius in africa thought it would be fun to have sex with a monkey.  he got aids, then he went and spread it to others. now it is a Pandemic
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Yersinia pestis is a bacteria that lives on ticks that usually live on rats. This bacteria can cause the illness known as the Plague - Pneumonic, Septicemic, or Bubonic when it is transmitted through tick bites.
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Fever \n\nChills\nMyalgias\nSore throat\nHeadache\nWeakness\nMalaise\nEnlarged, painful, swollen lymph node\nAbdominal pain - Only presenting symptom more common in a patient presenting with septicemic plague (primary blood-borne plague) versus one presenting with bubonic plague \n\nNausea, vomiting (bloody at times)\nConstipation, diarrhea, and black or tarry stools\nGastrointestinal complaints (may precede a bubo)\nCough, which may be productive of bloody sputum\nShortness of breath\nStiff neck (if meningitic infiltration by plague bacillus has occurred)
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Disease was very common in the middle ages.  More common than today because of lower hygiene standards are poor nutrition.  Between 1347 and 1350 1 out of every 3 people in the continent of Europe died of the bubonic plague.
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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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When virus first started to infect computers, you needed to run the infected program to start the virus, and then it would spread to other files. \n\nBefore we had windows, the programs had to be run manually, no GUI, so you had to run an infected program to get infected.\n\nMBR virus took care of this infecting the Master Boot Record insuring the virus started as soon as the computer started, leaving it memory resident and infecting every program that was run.\n\nthe first MBR virus was introduced in 1986 and it was on a 360kb floppy disk.\n\n\n\nif a virus infects the Master Boot Record, basically starts as soon as the computer boots,
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the plague killed about 1/3 of the population of europe.\nConsider that in our society.  What would it do?
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It started because the mouth invaded the nose to take control of its valuable snot resources.\n\nOh, you mean world war 2? Sorry. Yeah, it started because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. And if anyone posts that answer in all seriousness, I may be forced to kill them in the most painful way possible.\n\nWorld War II started because Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, prompting Britain and France to declare war. However, some historians place the date as early as 1931 with the Manchurian Incident.\n\nSo, to answer your question, there were a number of events which precipitated the war after the war to end all wars. For a fuller history of the international conflicts of the 1930s/40s, see the wikipedia entry referenced below.\n\nETA: OMG, someone did. I despair for you.
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No.  It started in Africa.  I mean, anything is possible, but why the government would want to play around with diseases is beyond me.  Realistically, no.
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"The bubonic variant (the most common) derives its name from the swellings or buboes that appeared on a victim's neck, armpits or groin. These tumors could range in size from that of an egg to that of an apple."  More at http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm
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One traditional explanation for the custom is that it began literally as a blessing. Pope Gregory I the Great (AD 540-604) ascended to the Papacy just in time for the start of the bubonic plague in AD 590 (his successor succumbed to it). To combat the plague, Gregory ordered litanies, processions and unceasing prayer for God's blessing. When someone sneezed (seen as the initial onset of the plague), they were immediately blessed ("God bless you!") in the hope that they would not actually develop the disease.\n\n\nSuperstition\nOther explanations are based on superstitions and urban legends about sneezing and what a sneeze entails. Some well known superstitions that may have contributed to bringing "bless you" into common use are:\n\nThe heart stops when you sneeze (it doesn't), and the phrase "bless you" is meant to ensure the return of life or to encourage your heart to continue beating. \nA sneeze is the expulsion of some sort of evil, and the phrase is meant to ward off the evil's re-entry. \nYour soul can be thrown from your body when you sneeze, and saying "bless you" prevents your soul from being stolen by Satan or some evil spirit. Thus, "bless you" or "God bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil. \nA sneeze is good luck and saying "bless you" is no more than recognition of the sneezer's luckiness. \nAlternatively, it may be possible that the phrase began simply as a response for an event that wasn't well understood at the time.