Symptoms
After 3-7 days of exposure to the bacteria, one will develop flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, chills, and swollen/tender lymph glands (buboes). Parts of the body start to turn black. Seizures are also symptom of the bubonic plague. The bubonic plague would kill people in a number of days, and it usually only took about 4 days to kill a person once they started noticing symptoms.
After 3-7 days of exposure to the bacteria, one will develop flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, chills, and swollen/tender lymph glands (buboes). Parts of the body start to turn black. Seizures are also symptom of the bubonic plague. The bubonic plague would kill people in a number of days, and it usually only took about 4 days to kill a person once they started noticing symptoms.
Vaccines/ Antibiotics
Unfortunately for the human race, there is no cure for Black Death, but there are ways to prevent it. Antibiotics are recommended on high levels when a person has been exposed to wild rodent fleas during a plague outbreak in animals, or to a possible plague-infected animal. Because there have been so few cases of the plague in the United States, health experts would rather a person be absolutely sure that they have been exposed, but it's always good to be safe, rather than sorry. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) conducts and supports research on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of infections like the Bubonic Plague. NIAID-supported investigators sequenced the genome of the strain of Y. pestis that was associated with the second pandemic of plague, including the Black Death. This will provide a valuable research resource to scientists for identifying new targets for vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics for this deadly pathogen. NIAID-funded scientists have developed a rapid diagnostic test for pneumatic plague that can be used in most hospitals. This will allow health care providers to quickly identify and isolate the pneumatic plague patient from other patients and enable health care providers to use appropriate precautions to protect themselves. Current research is focused on identifying genes in Y. pestis that infect the digestive tract of fleas and researching how the bacteria are transferred to humans and studying the disease-causing proteins and genes of Y. Pestis that allow bacteria to grow in humans and learning how they function in human lungs.
Unfortunately for the human race, there is no cure for Black Death, but there are ways to prevent it. Antibiotics are recommended on high levels when a person has been exposed to wild rodent fleas during a plague outbreak in animals, or to a possible plague-infected animal. Because there have been so few cases of the plague in the United States, health experts would rather a person be absolutely sure that they have been exposed, but it's always good to be safe, rather than sorry. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) conducts and supports research on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of infections like the Bubonic Plague. NIAID-supported investigators sequenced the genome of the strain of Y. pestis that was associated with the second pandemic of plague, including the Black Death. This will provide a valuable research resource to scientists for identifying new targets for vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics for this deadly pathogen. NIAID-funded scientists have developed a rapid diagnostic test for pneumatic plague that can be used in most hospitals. This will allow health care providers to quickly identify and isolate the pneumatic plague patient from other patients and enable health care providers to use appropriate precautions to protect themselves. Current research is focused on identifying genes in Y. pestis that infect the digestive tract of fleas and researching how the bacteria are transferred to humans and studying the disease-causing proteins and genes of Y. Pestis that allow bacteria to grow in humans and learning how they function in human lungs.