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In this insightful 5 page essay, the writer discusses similarities between the Bubonic, or 'Black Plague' (a.k.a. 'Black Death') of the 14th century, and the modern-day A.I.D.S. crisis. Public health and social issues are taken into consideration as they relate to each of the two societies discussed. Stereotypes, discrimination, and popular fears are analyzed as well. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and our current plague, AIDS. When a plague strikes it is not only frightening but it kills hundreds, even millions of people often without anyone ever finding out the cause
or finding the cause when it is too late. The current AIDS epidemic has very close ties and similarities to the bubonic plague that swept the ancient world early in
1347. What happened was a mysterious disease attacked people living near the Black Sea in what is now considered southern Ukraine. The symptoms that its victims suffered from included headaches,
feeling weak and tired, and they all staggered when they tried to walk. By the third day of the epidemic the lymph nodes in the sufferers groins, or occasionally their
armpits, began to swell. Soon after that they got as big as hens eggs. It was from these swellings that the name of the plague originated. The swellings became known
as buboes, which comes from the Greek word for groin, boubon. The Greeks gave the disease its official name, the bubonic plague. According to Encarta (1996), "Bubonic plague is
transmitted by the bite of any of numerous insects that are normally parasitic on rodents, and that seek new hosts when the original host dies. The most important of these
insects is the rat flea." As the disease progressed, the victims heart beat wildly as it tried to pump blood through the swollen tissues. The nervous system started to
collapse, causing dreadful pain and bizarre movements of the arms and legs. Then, as death neared, the mouth gaped open and the skin blackened from internal bleeding. The disease was
rapid, as death usually came on the fifth day. Within weeks of the first reported cases, hundreds of people in the Black Sea region became sick and had died. Those
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