Just one thing from someone who studied plague a fair bit in school: Y. pestis is not a disease. It’s a pathogen-specifically, it’s a species of bacteria. The disease is simply called plague (with specific variations that you listed). Calling the disease Y. pestis is like calling malaria “plasmodium,” or calling syphilis “Treponema pallidum pallidum.” It’s also worth noting that in general, while septicemic plague may be more fatal for individuals, it’s also by far the least common and most difficult to contract, making it the least lethal variety for a population. The worst is pneumonic plague, as that can be transmitted directly from person to person through sneezing, coughing, or even just carried on water vapor in the infected person’s breath, cutting out the middlemen-or, middlefleas, in this case. It’s also much rarer than the bubonic variety, though.

Great video! Helped me loads with my homework. Definitely giving this a thumbs up

Awesome lecture ! Thanks

Great stuff thanks for posting

Informative. Thanks!

Polish king closed the borders. The spread of plague was limited in Poland because travelling from infected areas to Poland was not really possible at that time. Apparently the border controls were tight enough. It affected the trade but at least the plague did not get in. Another possible reason was apparently the beer which was drank in high amounts instead of water -and you need boiled water to make beer. This again limited the spread of plague at least via infected water sources.Not sure how reliable the second theory is. The sources do confirm the first one though (closing borders)

Absolutely fucking terrifying. Imagine the greif after an abandonment, from either side. Knowing you'll never see each other again, but not wanting to touch or say goodbye. If you're the infected one you probably want them to leave somewhat, so your family can survive. But now you face the terror of your final days truly alone. With only the flys and rats collecting around your soon to be corpse as companions.

Thucydides gives a good description of the plague, and its symptoms, in The History of the Peloponnesian War. He suffered it during the plague of Athens and documented its effects. One of the few to survive it.

Samuel Pepys recorded the plague, not Samuel Johnson.

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What about the Antonine and Cyprian Plagues? Were these caused by Yersinia Pestis as well?

Art imitates life... or death in this case.

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30% to 90% lmao what a meaningless statistic.