Deadly Diseases

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Browse these pages for an in-depth look at some of the most harmful diseases sweeping through European society. Find out what causes them, how they can be detected and what types of cures are are available for which diseases.

The Plague:

 

An acute, contagious, epidemical and poisonous fever, consisting of three strains: pneumonic, bubonic, and septicaemic. It first arrived in the form of the Black Death in 1347 and has stifled economic growth, dislocated families and checked the expansion of population ever since. (1)

Smallpox :

 

 An acute, often fatal disease caused by a pox virus. Although it is less murderous than the plague and less disabling than syphilis, it has become known as England's most spectacular cause of death. It is known to hit the youth population and is prevalent more in the city than in the countryside. (2)
Tuberculosis:
 An infectious, widespread disease caused by the tubercle bacillus. It is known to claim the lives of twenty percent of the population at one time. (3)

Typhus and Cholera:

 

 Bacteria within the body and the mouth can often lead to Infectious secondary diseases confined to smaller populations and caused by rickettsia. These diseases are known to frequent poor and downtrodden rural areas, which accounts for its small death toll. (4)

 

Authors: J. A. Bakos, A. S. Gilbert, T. Heck, S. Tiderington