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	MSN Encarta - Plague
		Bubonic plague is the best-known form and is so called because it is characterized by the appearance of buboes, or enlarged, inflamed lymph nodes, in the groin or armpit or on the neck.
		Pneumonic plague, so called because the lung is the site of infection, is most often transmitted by droplets sprayed from the lungs and mouth of infected persons; the infection may spread from the lungs to other parts of the body, resulting in septicemic plague, which is infection of the blood.
		Untreated bubonic plague is fatal in 30 to 75 percent of all cases, pneumonic plague 95 percent of the time, and septicemic plague almost invariably.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565483/Plague.html (800 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)

	The Plague of 1665
		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).
		The plague was at its worst in September 1665 when the heat of the summer was at its peak.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /plague_of_1665.htm (1046 words)

	The Plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labor as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.
		Although his approach in the book is severe, he emphasizes the ideas that we ultimately have no control, irrationality of life is inevitable, and he further illustrates the human reaction towards the ‘absurd’.
		The Plague represents how the world deals with the philosophical notion of the Absurd, a theory which Camus himself helped to define.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Plague (293 words)

	plague - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about plague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The new waves of the plague which struck northern Italy and Tuscany in 1630 were believed to have killed up to 70% of the population.
		A new plague vaccine was under development in 1995 using a genetically engineered version of the disabled salmonella bacterium Salmonella typhi.
		After the Black Death in the 14th century, plague remained endemic for the next three centuries, the most notorious outbreak being the Great Plague of London in 1665, when about 100,000 of the 400,000 inhabitants died.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /plague (623 words)

	CDC Plague Home Page - CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID)
		This flea is the primary vector of plague in most large plague epidemics in Asia, Africa, and South America.
		Introduction: Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis.
		In North America, plague is found in certain animals and their fleas from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains, and from southwestern Canada to Mexico.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/dvbid/plague (336 words)

	Plague
		Plague was the most feared disease of all: people died of it every year, and the Black Death pandemic –; which had killed nearly one third of Europe's population (20 million people) in the 1300s – still lived on in folk memory.
		Its 'plague orders' decreed that victims should be shut into their own houses and left to die.
		The first case of what was to become the Great Plague of London was discovered in April 1665, in St Giles-in-the-Fields, a built-up area just to the west of the walled City.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/plague/story.html (964 words)

	Plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black Death, also known as Black Plague, the great 14th century disease (and its reprises until the 18th century).
		The widespread stomach virus epidemic at Kellenberg Memorial High School which lasted for two weeks in January 2006 was often referred to as "The Plague".
		Plague is the name of a Canadian High School band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plague (171 words)

	Ian Jessiman : The Plague, England and Loughborough 1539 - 1640 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It appears that the spread of the plague across the country was far too rapid to be accounted for by wild rodents in the countryside, and it is human transport which explains its movement along the major trade routes, usually by ship (British port to port), or on main roads and navigable rivers.
		Possibly, the occasional annual outbreaks of bubonic plague may be explained by the over-wintering of fleas and fl rats in major cities, and perhaps on the wild rodents of the countryside.
		There are numerous examples of the reluctance's of parishes to contaminate their churchyards with plague corpses, of unregistered burials of plague victims in gardens and fields, and of parochial registration ceasing at the height of the epidemic.
	www.loughborough.co.uk /plague (4053 words)

	CDC Plague \| Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Plague
		Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis (Y.
		Bubonic plague is transmitted through the bite of an infected flea or exposure to infected material through a break in the skin.
		Pneumonic plague may also occur if a person with bubonic or septicemic plague is untreated and the bacteria spread to the lungs.
	www.bt.cdc.gov /agent/plague/faq.asp (1079 words)

	The Plague
		The Black Plague was caused by infected rodents carrying the virus "Pasteurella pestis." It is an acute infectious disease that is transmitted when the infected rodent comes in contact with human beings.
		Often, in the winter time, the plague would come about because the little rodents would look for a warm place and would live in people's houses.That whole family would be infected with the plague, and sooner or later the whole village or town would be infected.
		The first symptoms of the bubonic plague often appear within several days: headache and a general feeling of weakness, followed by aches and chills in the upper leg and groin, a white coating on the tongue, rapid pulse, slurred speech, confusion, fatigue, apathy and a staggering gait.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/eng97_8/remsen/saki_justin/the_plague.htm (808 words)

	Plague
		The plague was not the kind of calamity to inspire man to greater heights of altruism.
		In a bull of 1348 Clement called the Plague, "a pestilence with which God is afflicting his Christian people." King Philip VI believed that God was punishing France for her sins and issued a unusual public health decree against blasphemy.
		The Italian chronicler Matteo Villani spoke for them when he said the plague was "Divine action with no goal less than the extermination of mankind." Villani himself succumbed to the disease, literally dying at his desk as he wrote of its terrors..
	www.hyw.com /books/history/Plague.htm (2100 words)

	Plague, Peste - ProvenceBeyond
		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.
		Attempts to stop the Great Plague included an Act of Parliament (of Aix) that levied the death penalty for any communication between Marseilles and the rest of Provence, and a plague wall (Mur de la Peste) was erected across the countryside.
	www.beyond.fr /history/plague.html (711 words)

	plague * Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The plague of the Spanish lady the influenza pandemic of 19181919.
		The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England.
		Plagues, Priests and Demons Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New.
	www.alfatah.de /alfauuuplague.html (986 words)

	The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
		Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name.
		By the following August, the plague had spread as far north as England, where people called it "The Black Death" because of the fl spots it produced on the skin.
		The survivors lived in constant fear of the plague's return, and the disease did not disappear until the 1600s.
	www.themiddleages.net /plague.html (571 words)

	PLAGUE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN RENAISSANCE EUROPE
		At the most basic level, recurrent plague tended to skim off significant portions of the children born between infestations of plague, dampening economic and demographic growth in most parts of Europe until the late seventeenth century.
		Plague stimulated chroniclers, poets and authors, and physicians to write about what might have caused the plague and how the plague affected the population at large the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron is merely the most famous of the writings.
		To properly understand the impact of plague it is necessary to consider almost all aspects of society, from art and music to science.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /osheim/plaguein.html (1001 words)

	Bubonic plague Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and is usually transmitted by the bite of fleas from an infected host, often a rat.
		Many scientists believe that there was an outbreak of bubonic plague in the 6th century, starting in Africa and moving to Constantinople and the rest of the Byzantine Empire.
		The Great Plague of 1665 in London is also generally believed to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/bubonic_plague.html (555 words)

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		Thucydides' himself suffered from the plague and recovered; thus he was an eyewitness to the catastrophe (might this have affected his reportage of it?).
		It was clearly not the bubonic plague of the Black Death in the 14th century, for the characteristic symptom of the bubo is not found in Thucydides' description.
		Thucydides' emphasis on the social and moral effects of the Athenian plague may be augmented by studies of the effects of the Black Death in Europe (for example, Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death, 1978).
	www.indiana.edu /~ancmed/plague.htm (1288 words)

	Plague (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		The sixth plague, of "boils and blains," like the third, was sent without warning (Ex.9:8-12).
		The plague of locusts, which covered the whole face of the earth, so that the land was darkened with them (Ex.
		The last and most fearful of these plagues was the death of the first-born of man and of beast (Ex.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/plague.html (331 words)

	Mr. Dowling's Bubonic Plague Page
		The plague was also referred to as "the Black Death” because the skin of diseased people turned a dark gray color.
		Many of the sailors were already dying of the plague, and within days the disease had spread from the port cities to the surrounding countryside.
		The Italian writer Boccaccio said victims often “ate lunch with their friends, and ate dinner with their ancestors in paradise.” The first signs were generally aching limbs, and vomiting of blood.
	www.mrdowling.com /703-plague.html (405 words)

	The London Plague 1665
		The plague germs were carried by fleas which lived as parasites on rats.
		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 (780 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Plague
		Plague is spread among rodents by a flea bite.
		Plague is rare in the United States, but has been known to occur in parts of California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico.
		Patients with the plague need immediate treatment withing 24 hours of initial symptom development, or death may be unavoidable. Treatment consists of antibiotics such as streptomycin, chloramphenicol, or tetracycline.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/000596.htm (624 words)

	camus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The town is woefully unprepared for its "war" against the plague; it "hasn't a gram of serum" (47).
		But as the plague's evil nears, he becomes a different person; his actions are almost like a "collaborator." He treats strangers more kindly, hoping to get "witnesses" to "say I'm not really a bad kind of man" (54).
		Rieux says the plague shows "there are more things to admire in men than to despise," but warns "the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years.
	home.insightbb.com /~adamwatson/showcase/camus.html (1112 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Algeria hit by plague outbreak
		UN health officials are helping Algeria to investigate an outbreak of plague in the west of the country which has claimed at least one life.
		Of the 10 confirmed cases, eight were of bubonic plague and two of the deadlier septicaemic kind, one of which proved fatal.
		Plague is primarily a disease of rodents which can affect humans, the WHO notes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/3056921.stm (314 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Language (Ring Around the Rosie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The "Black Plague" was the disease we call bubonic plague, spread by a bacillus usually carried by rodents and transmitted to humans by fleas.
		The plague first hit western Europe in 1347, and by 1350 it had killed nearly a third of the population.
		For the "plague" explanation of "Ring Around the Rosie" to be true, we have to believe that children were reciting this nursery rhyme continuously for over five centuries, yet not one person in that five hundred year span found it popular enough to merit writing it down.
	www.snopes.com /language/literary/rosie.htm (1426 words)

	plague.htm
		Plague Literature : Describes how plague galvanized the European population toward general learning, and how the printing press widened the audience for literature.
		The Plague : By Liam Miller and Evan Orr.
		The Plague : Read first-hand accounts of what life was like during the plague, find out about its causes, or learn about how it first came to Europe.
	www.fidnet.com /~weid/plague.htm (396 words)

	SparkNotes: The Plague: Summary
		The Plague is a novel about a plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran.
		Meanwhile, Rieux, Tarrou, and Grand doggedly battle the death and suffering wrought by the plague.
		Othon's small son suffers a prolonged, excruciating death from the plague, Dr. Rieux shouts at Paneloux that he was an innocent victim.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/plague/summary.html (653 words)

	The Black Death, 1348
		A second variation - pneumonic plague - attacked the respiratory system and was spread by merely breathing the exhaled air of a victim.
		They shut themselves up in houses where there were no sick, eating the finest food and drinking the best wine very temperately, avoiding all excess, allowing no news or discussion of death and sickness, and passing the time in music and suchlike pleasures.
		They thought the sure cure for the plague was to drink and be merry, to go about singing and amusing themselves, satisfying every appetite they could, laughing and jesting at what happened.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /plague.htm (1507 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Plague (Essential.penguin S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is the doctor fighting the plague (Rieux), the gangster on the run who welcomes it (Cottard), the priest (Paneloux), the reformed terrorist (Tarrou), among others, All of which serve to illustrate the variety of human responses to death.
		The distractions of the plague keep the authorities from troubling him, so the period of the plague is an exile from his criminal past.
		Tarrou also describes is own sense of the plague in everyday life when he discovers that his father is a prosecuting attorney who helps bring criminals to the justice of a firing squad.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140278516 (2029 words)

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