3 Diseases That Hit The World…Hard
Tagged Under : epidemics, Health, outbreaks
During earlier times, medicine was not as advanced as it is today. So when a plague suddenly hits, you can imagine how much the death toll could have been. Still, there are diseases that still have no cure and one isn’t always available when a new epidemic hits. Here are three disease outbreaks that not too many people have heard of.
Black Death - It happened around 1330 in Central Asia. A disease where the victim experiences fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes. That is how it got its name - the bubonic plague. It spread towards Europe where the disease killed 25 million people, one-third of Europe’s population, in only a few years. What’s worse is that the disease only disappeared around the 1666 with England’s population dropping to around 6% at before that time.
The Sweat - Also known as Sweating Sickness or English sweate. It was a highly virulent disease that killed people within hours and the cause is still unknown. Apparently, it only appeared as a series of epidemics (1485 - 1551) from England and then later, Europe. The symptoms, according to Physician John Caius, are cold shivers, headaches, severe pains in the neck, and exhaustion. After that stage, sweating breaks out accompanied by palpitating, extreme thirst, and delirium. A feeling of unbearable sleepiness afterwards result in the death of the victim.
Yellow Fever - Yellow Fever has been a source of different epidemics since the late 17th century. Several states in the US have experienced outbreaks of the disease causing deaths by a few thousand. Yellow Fever is an acute viral disease that causes vomiting, constipation, bleeding, and fever. On the third day of the disease, internal hemorrhage may occur. There is still no cure for the disease but vaccination would help prevent it. Aside from that, each symptom would be treated separately in case one gets infected.
We are lucky that nothing this bad has happened in our generation. So far I have only seen sars and that was addressed pretty fast.
strange that none of the diseases that decimated the natives of the western hemisphere were mentioned they eliminated a higher percentage of a population than did black death in Eaurope, but of course Europeans are all that matter anyway
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