Some belief that the Black Plague was responsible for the CCR5-Δ32 genetic defect.
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
The Black Death (AKA The Bubonic Plague, The plague) didn't really "start" or "end" on specific dates. There are some rare cases of The Bubonic plague today. The peak of the Black Death was around 1347- 1352
Answer to "Were there other names for the black death?"Another name for the Black Death is the Black Plague. In the Middle Ages, people called it the "Great Pestilence"' and the "Great Plague." Medieval writers referred to the plague as the "Great Mortality." The term "Black Death" has actually only been used since 1833. AlsoThe names for the 3 different forms of the Black Death were the Bubonic plague, Septicemic plague, and the Pneumonic Plague.Answer to "Were there other names for the black death?"· Great Pestilence · Great Plague· Great Mortality· Black Death· Black Plague· Bubbonic Plague· Septicemic plague· Pneumonic Plague
There was no cure for plague, although a lot of people did some incredibly stupid things in the hopes that it would be. This was one of them.
There was only a cure available for the bubonic plague, (one of the plgaues of the two plagues of the black death), the main cure which in some cases worked was to pop the boils which were side affects of the plague and letting the puss out would somehow eliminate the plague from the body.
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The Black Plague ended because the waves of infection gradually died out, and some of the population were resistant to the disease.
The plague is called the black death because it is a bacterial hemorrhagic fever. Hemorrhagic fevers cause blood vessels to leak, producing massive hemorrhages under the skin (and inside internal organs also). As the blood from these hemorrhages clots it turns dark, causing the skin to appear black. Thus people that have died of plague generally their bodies have become black: therefor black death.
The black plague was, salmonella is, west nile virus, rabidity... the list goes on.
Some sickness was smallpox and black plague.
The influenza (spanish flu) virus killed a simliar amount of people after World War I, but far fewer as a proportion of the population. The Black Death was the worst biological plague in the history of mankind.