Friday, December 12, 2008

Bubonic Plague

What does a flea have to do with a disease?

There is a Virtual Museum of Bacterium.
Click on this link and search this pathogen
Yersinia pestis


Have you read the Center for Disease Control (CDC)
website for this pathogen?



The worst case of the plague was the Black Plague-

Read about the Black Death of the Middle Ages
Click on the link and scroll down for information, more links are at the bottom of the page

Interested in more History of the Plague? Here is a nice site with lots to click on. Scroll down and do a little reading. Need some more info for your project? Click on Modern Day Symptoms.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I thought that the Bubonic Plague was quite an interesting disease to research. Last year I learned a little bit about it in Social Studies, but now I know the science of it!! I think it is very interesting that you get the virus by a flea bite.