Case Study of Black Death
Case Study of Black Death
Case Study of Black Death
Black death bacterium Yersinia 1. Fever 1. rapid diagnostic 1. Remove brush, 1. streptomycin
pestis 2. Weakness test (RDT) rock piles, junk, 2. chloramphenicol
3. Chills cluttered firewood, 3. tetracycline
4. plague pharyngitis and possible rodent
5.plague meningitis food supplies, such as
pet and wild animal
food.
2. Wear gloves if you
are handling or
skinning potentially
infected animals to
prevent contact
between your skin
TRANSMISSION and the plague
1. droplet contact bacteria.
2. irect physical
contact
3. fecal-oral
transmission
4. airborne
transmission