Bubonic Plague Sanitation

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Sanitation was a treatment that was more helpful to the communities that included the victims than the actual victims. With the sanitation remedy, the streets were cleaned of human and animal waste and dumped in a location far away. This was the most common action taken when outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague occurred because the humans that were infected with the bacteria would all be sent to this waste area and left to die there. This was an attempt to try and get all of the infected people out of the areas and leave the healthy people to live, but it failed due to how quickly the Bubonic Plague was spreading. Pestilence medicine instructed the victim to “[r]oast the shells of newly laid eggs. Ground the roasted shells into a powder. Chop up …show more content…

“Rat control and watching for the disease in the wild rodent population are the main measures used” ("Plague") to help prevent the spread of the Bubonic Plague today. With this prevention being announced throughout the science fields and communities, less and less people are encountering this deadly disease. Although watching and being careful not to encounter infected rodents has helped, the disease can also be prevented with a vaccine. Normally this vaccine is only administered to people who work or live in areas with large populations of rodents and wild animals that could possibly have the infectious disease. This is due to the fact that scientists are still currently unaware of how effective the vaccine is and the different symptoms that can occur from getting the vaccine. The vaccine is also not administered often because of the lack of people around wild rodents, but “[f]urthermore, these vaccines are no longer being manufactured in the U.S.” (Meysick). Without the United States producing the ingredients needed to manufacture the specialized antiserum, the people that are employed in areas dealing with wild rodents still have the possibility of acquiring the disease. A probable reason to why the United States does not produce this antiseptic anymore can be that the price to …show more content…

The scientists and doctors are able to diagnose a human with the Bubonic Plague with a lymph node aspirate, blood cultures, sputum culture, bronchial and tracheal washing, a direct fluorescent antibody, and staining. With lymph node aspirate the scientist can look at organisms from an affected bubo through a microscope and detect whether or not the human has the disease. Not only can lymph node aspirate help, but the blood smears of the human can also diagnose a patient depending on if the smears are negative or positive. If the smears are positive, it normally means that the human does not have the disease, unless it is positive by the culture. Other parts such as the sputum, can diagnose a human if they have already experienced many symptoms of the plague. This means it might not be too late to save the patient from having the bacteria take their life. Two more parts of the body, the bronchial and tracheal, can help diagnosis a human with the Bubonic Plague. The bronchial and tracheal washing includes taking a sample of the bronchial and tracheal regions and observing the specimens in the samples under the microscope. Although there are some tests with body parts and staining, there can also be a test with an antibody. Direct fluorescent antibody is where the disease can be diagnosed directly due to the fact

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