BUBONIC PLAGUE SYMPTOMS AND HOW TO RECOGNISE THEM.

It is usually caused as a result of being bitten by an infected rat flea, which as their name suggests are commonly found on rodents. Once the victim has been bitten, bacteria very quickly multiply within the lymphatic system, spreading to the lymph nodes.

As the disease worsens, the lymph nodes may swell and haemorrhage with cells and tissue dying prematurely. This is called necrosis which is caused by external factors, such as infection.

Usually cells dying due to necrosis, do not send chemical signals to the immune system, preventing white cells from finding and removing them, leading to a build up of dead tissue.

If left untreated symptoms such as vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea can quickly develope into Septicemic Plague.

After the lymphatic system, the lungs are the most commonly affected organ.

The most common Bubonic Plague Symptoms, can include:Swollen lymph nodes (buboes) found in the neck, armpits and groin, excruciating pain due to the premature death and decomposition of skin cells while the person is still alive, fever, nausia, continuous vomiting, no appetite, abdomen pain, diarrhoea, a headache (which includes head, face, neck and mouth pain) spots on the skin which are at first red, then turn black and chills.

Septicemia. ( Septicemic plague ) This occurs if and when the bacteria (Yersinia pestis) which caused the plague enters the bloodstream, very quickly progressing to this state when that happens.

Pneumonic plague. It is estimated that ten to twenty per cent of the victims with Bubonic Plague will also develope Pneumonic Plague, which is very infectious due to coughing and sneezing.

The Bubonic Plague Symptoms in the lungs include:

Coughing, sneezing, difficulty breathing, respiratory failure, coughing up blood and fever.

In medieval times Bubonic Plague almost inevitably resulted in death, due mainly to unhygenic living standards, i.e living in squalour and in controlling the rat population.

Unintentially, rats were in a way encouraged by the lifestyles of the population. Unsatisfactory sanitation, rubbish strewn anywhere and everywhere, the decimation of the domestic cat population due to superstition, everything favoured a huge and unchecked growth in the rat population, with the proliferation of their lodgers, the rat fleas.

Nowadays, with our knowledge of the disease, hygenic living standards and the antibiotics at our disposal, we are well placed to effectively treat Bubonic Plague.

People contracting plague in the modern era, can usually completely recover with prompt diagnosis and treatment.

However, a caveat, plague is still endemic, it still exists and it is with us all the time, although not in epidemic proportions. It can kill in between two to seven days. Once Bubonic Plague Symptoms occur, the patient MUST BE TREATED IMMEDIATELY.

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