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	Plague
		Plague is primarily a disease of rats and wild rodents and is transmitted from animal to animal by the bites of infected fleas, with humans as the accidental host.
		In the pneumonic plague, the disease becomes a lung infection and the disease is spread by coughing.
		An epidemic of plague is colorfully described in the Bible, Samuel 5:6-12 with mention of tumors (buboes), swarms of rats, death and destruction.
	www.uic.edu /classes/osci/osci590/6_3Plague.htm (1959 words)

	PLAGUE - LoveToKnow Article on PLAGUE
		Plague was formerly divided into two chief varieties: (I) mild plague, pestis minor, larval plague (Radcliffe), peste fruste, in which the special symptoms are accompanied by little fever or general disturbance; and (2) ordinary epidemic or severe plague, pestis major, in which the general disturbance is very severe.
		The great plague of 1592 in London seems to have been a part of the same epidemic, which was hardly extinguished by the end of the century, and is noted in London again in 1599.
		The prostration is great and the course of the illness rapid.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PL/PLAGUE.htm (15727 words)

	Great Plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Plague (AD 1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in Britain that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population.
		The 1665-66 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier "Black Death", a virulent outbreak of disease in Europe between 1347 and 1353, but was remembered afterwards as the "great" plague because it was one of the last widespread outbreaks in Europe.
		Accounts of the plague were given by Samuel Pepys in his famous diary (retold musically in Robert Steadman's cantata "Pepy's Diary"), and by Daniel Defoe in the fictional work A Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Plague (791 words)

	Great Plague (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Great Plague was a disastrous pestilence.
		The Great Plague began in the east beyond Mordor, reaching Osgiliath in 1636 of the Third Age, just a year after King Minardil of Gondor had been killed at Pelargir by the Corsairs of Umbar, and only two centuries after the Kin-strife of Gondor.
		Enedwaith and Dunland were scarely affected, but the Plague regained strength as it went north, and Minhiriath (the southern part of Cardolan) was especially hit hard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Plague_(Middle-earth) (328 words)

	Great Plague - MSN Encarta
		Great Plague, disastrous epidemic that devastated London and south-east England in the mid-17th century.
		Though the proportion of the population of London dying in the plagues of 1563, 1603, and 1625 may have been higher, the Great Plague of 1664-1666 killed more people than any other epidemic, with approximately 68,500 burials of plague victims being recorded during its 18-month course.
		Though the greatest of London's plague epidemics, that of 1664-1666 was also the last.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781530967/Great_Plague.html (337 words)

	Bubonic Plague: Yesterday's Scourge--and Tomorrow's?
		Plague's ability to masquerade as flu in the early stages is particularly unfortunate, since successful treatment depends on using the appropriate antibiotics within a narrow time frame.
		One reason why we need to maintain a healthy respect for the possibility of another great plague pandemic is that although the reservoirs of infection are rural, human commerce, urban living conditions, population density, and encroachment on and development of wilderness areas significantly influence the conditions that lead to the spread of plague.
		Should that occur, our innumerable large urban centers are at great risk for epidemic plague, not only because crowded urban conditions are ideal for establishing a plague epidemic, but also because so many rodents and fleas have developed resistance to the rodenticides and insecticides we would normally use to control their populations.
	www.salvoblue.homestead.com /plague.html (1700 words)

	Great Plague
		The Great Plague was a massive outbreak of disease in Britain that killed up to a fifth of London's population in 1665.
		The Great Fire of London in 1666 killed most of the London rats, and the 16 human deaths in the fire was probably fewer than would have died had the fire not happened.
		The 1665 epidemic was in fact on a far smaller scale than the earlier "Black Death", a virulent outbreak of disease in Europe between 1347 and 1353, but was remembered afterwards as the "great" plague because it was one of the last widespread outbreaks in Europe.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/g/gr/great_plague.html (340 words)

	Transatlantic Traffic: Philadelphia, London, and the World 1665-1876
		Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis, transmitted by the rat flea.
		Plague as spread from rats to man in crowded urban areas is sometimes called murine (rat) or urban plague; plague in desert or rural areas where the human population is sparse but the wild rodent population large and infected may be called sylvatic (woodland) or campestral (field).
		The suppression of epidemic plague is attempted by appropriate sanitary measures directed simultaneously against fleas and rodents and isolation of the sick and the handling with greatest caution of all infectious material.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Undergrad/Courses/Spring02/traffic/plague.html (648 words)

	templateeliz
		This particular type of plague was the bubonic plague, which is caused by the bacteria called Yersinia pests.
		The symptoms associated with plague are bubos, which are painful swellings of the lymph nodes.
		The Great Plague, later to be known as the Black Death, within a span of four years (1347-1350) destroyed a quarter to a half of the population of Europe.
	www.springfield.k12.il.us /schools/springfield/eliz/plague.html (1624 words)

	Great Plague
		Bubonic plague is transferred through blood; the flea-infested populace and accompanying population of flea-infested rats transferred the disease from these refugees to their new neighbors in France, Africa, Prussia, Britain, Norway, Italy and Russia.
		The Plague resurged for one last major European epidemic in London in 1665, an outbreak that gets a lot of attention in the history books, partly because it killed a lot of white people, but also partly because it was extraordinarily well-documented.
		The Great Plague of London ended when the fleas started dying as was their seasonal habit, in the fall and winter.
	www.rotten.com /library/history/plague (1089 words)

	The Great Plague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Great Plague of London (1664-1666) was an outbreak of bubonic plague that struck London and was particularly violent during the hot months of August and September of 1665.
		The Great Plague was an epidemic that devastated London and the south east of England between 1664 and 1666.
		The great plague was an outbreak of the …………….
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /heathsid/Subjects/History/plague.htm (463 words)

	::The Plague of 1665::
		Plague had been around in England for centuries but in 1665 the so-called Great Plague hit the country - though it was Stuart London that took the worst of the plague.
		The plague was only finally brought under control in 1666 when the Great Fire of London burned down the areas most affected by plague — the city slums inhabited by the poor.
		The second line refers to the belief that the plague was spread by a cloud of poisonous gas that was colourless (known as a miasma).
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /plague_of_1665.htm (1081 words)

	Plague History Provence, History France - Provence Beyond
		The Plague (La Peste) arrived in Gaul for the first time in the year 543, probably via Marseilles.
		An epidemic of The Plague in 1588-1589 and 1629 caused widespread death in a number of Provencal villages, including Mazan in the Vaucluse.
		In Cairanne, another Vaucluse village, a chapel was built outside the protective village walls expressly to house the plague victims and protect the rest of the population.
	www.beyond.fr /history/plague.html (446 words)

	Kentucky: Cabinet for Health and Family Services - Plague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plague is the disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis (Y pestis).
		Bubonic plague should be suspected when a person develops a swollen gland, fever, chills, headache and extreme exhaustion, and has a history of possible exposure to infected rodents, rabbits, or fleas.
		In areas of known plague activity a combined approach using the following methods is recommended for risk reduction: environmental sanitation; educating the public on ways to prevent plague exposures; and preventive antibiotic therapy.
	chfs.ky.gov /dph/diseases/plague.htm (663 words)

	plague. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Bubonic plague, the most common form, is characterized by very high fever, chills, prostration, delirium, hemorrhaging of the small capillaries under the skin, and enlarged, painful lymph nodes (buboes), which suppurate and may discharge.
		Invasion of the lungs by the organism (pneumonic plague) may occur as a complication of the bubonic form or as a primary infection.
		The great plague of London in 1665 is recorded in many works of literature.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pl/plague.html (521 words)

	The Great Plague 1665 - the Black Death
		In the spring and summer of 1665 an outbreak of Bubonic Plague spread from parish to parish until thousands had died and the huge pits dug to receive the bodies were full.
		Bubonic Plague was known as the Black Death and had been known in England for centuries.
		The plague victims were buried outside the city walls and it is said that they have never been disturbed since then, as a precaution against a resurgence of the dreaded plague.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/GreatPlague.htm (839 words)

	The London Plague 1665
		Although it had first appeared in Britain in 1348, the islands were never totally free of plague, but it was like an unpleasant possibility that people just learned to live with while they got on with their business.
		When one person in a house caught the plague the house was sealed until 40 days after the victim either recovered or died (usually the latter).
		The villagers, led by their courageous clergyman, realized that the only way to stop the spread of the plague to surrounding villages was to voluntarily quarantine the village, refusing to leave until the plague had run its course.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/plague.htm (740 words)

	Week 3 Readings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Wrights (who lives thereabouts), falling sick of the plague, she was removed to an out-house, and a nurse appointed to look to her--who, being once absent, the maid got out of the house at the window, and run away.
		Plague victims were supposed to be buried only between sunset and sunrise, but the shear numbers of deaths made this regulation impossible to enforce.
		This was a decrease of 390 in deaths from the plague.
	eee.uci.edu /clients/bjbecker/PlaguesandPeople/week3b.html (7926 words)

	templateeliz
		From the very earliest plagues, there were simple bans on preventing movements of goods and people from one area to another.
		Writers of this time described plague in great detail in their diaries and chronicles.
		Next came relapsing fever, plague and other pestilential fever, smallpox and dysentery (a generic class of disease that includes what is commonly known as dysentery), as well as cholera.
	www.springfield.k12.il.us /schools/springfield/eliz/Greatplagues.html (706 words)

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		The Great Plague is not the story of the Twentieth Century flu epidemic, or about the Black Death of the Fourteenth.
		When the Great Plague struck London in 1665, the country was only too aware of the devastation this kind of epidemic could wreak.
		Defoe's vivid account of the Great Plague of London in 1665 has been discounted in recent years as it became known as a complete work of fiction, based on various 17th-century plague tracts republished during a plague scare in 1720-1.
	www.lycos.com /info/great-plague--london-bridge.html (612 words)

	Plague
		It was 229 years after the Great Plague dealt London such a terrible blow that the probable cause of the disease was discovered.
		It is widely believed that the Great Plague's memory lives on in the nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-ring o' roses': the 'roses' refer to the red spots that appear over the buboes, and 'A-tishoo!
		Plague is still endemic in parts of Asia and, surprisingly, in the western United States, where it is spread by squirrels, prairie dogs, chipmunks and other rodents and infected family pets.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/plague/plague.html (737 words)

	Plague - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Plague, term applied indiscriminately in the Middle Ages to all fatal epidemic diseases, but now restricted to an acute, infectious, contagious...
		Black Death, epidemic of plague which ravaged Europe in the mid-14th century.
		Various forms of plague were known in the civilized world since...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Plague.html (160 words)

	SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Mystery of the Black Death \| PBS
		The bubonic plague is caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis and is characterized by chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the formation of fl boils in the armpits, neck, and groin.
		Though the disease was originally called the "Great Mortality" and the "Great Pestilence," the name "Black Death" was eventually adopted because of these fl boils, which derive their color from dried blood under the skin caused by internal bleeding.
		To determine whether the Eyam plague survivors may have carried delta 32, O'Brien tested the DNA of their modern-day descendents.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_plague/index.html (644 words)

	eMedicine - Plague : Article Excerpt by: Robert D Schremmer, MD
		Competency of the flea to serve as vector for transmission of plague to humans depends on its willingness to feed on a human host and its tendency to regurgitate intestinal contents during a blood meal.
		Pneumonic plague occurs when pneumonia results from either hematogenous spread (secondary pneumonic plague) or inhalation (primary pneumonic plague) of organisms transmitted from animals or other humans.
		The number of cases of plague reported to the WHO has decreased this decade, with only 1 case in 2003 and 2 per year in 2001 and 2002, none of which were fatal.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/byname/plague.htm (637 words)

	Great Plague of London -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Great Plague was not an isolated event; 40,000 Londoners had died of the plague in 1625; but it was the last and worst of the epidemics.
		It is the seat of one of the world's oldest parliamentary governments, a great industrial city, an international center of finance, and a huge port.
		Discusses the Anglo-Saxon settlers, the impact of the Tudor dynasty, the Great Plague, and the Great Fire.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037871 (886 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year: Books: A. Lloyd Moote,Dorothy C. Moote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A plague poison, the theory went, was spread from person to person by breathing and by putrid fumes from cesspits, rotten food, and other sources of putrefaction.
		As to the much-debated question of whether 17th-century plague was caused by Yersinia pestis, the agent of modern plague that is transmitted by the rat flea and the body louse, the authors incline cautiously to the affirmative but await definitive DNA testing of the dental pulp of plague victims from the 1600s and before.
		One of the last of these epidemics was the Great Plague of London in 1665 that killed probably a third of the population and left few families untouched.
	www.amazon.com /Great-Plague-Story-Londons-Deadly/dp/0801877830 (2923 words)

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