causes Flashcards
what were the four main causes of illness and disease in the medieval era
poverty
famine
warfare
accidental death
what did people think caused disease in the medieval era
god
four humours
supernatural
bad smells
when was a bad famine in the medieval era
1315-17 for 3 years due to bad harvest
what were houses/towns like in the medieval era
overcrowded, contaminated water, towns did little effort to keep clean and disease spread very quickly
when was the black death
1348-49
what percentage of the population died to the black death
50%
how was the black death spread
rats and fleas
what still lived in houses in the early modern
animals
what did people still think caused disease in the early modern
god and miasmas
when was the plague
1665-66
what percentage of the population did the plague kill
25%
what did the industrial revolution cause
urbanisation as people moved to the city’s to work in factories
what did urbanisation cause
mass overcrowding and people having to share everything
what contagious diseases spread in the modern era
small pox
tuberculosis
measles
what is rickets caused by
a vitimin d deficiency
which bacterial diseases were particularly rampant in the 19th century
cholera
typhoid
name three cholera epidemics
1831-32 50,000 dead
1848 60,000 dead
1854 20,000 dead
name the largest typhoid epidemic
in kent 1897-8 132 dead and ended by closing the contaminated water reservoir
what did soldiers bring back from ww1
the spanish flu killing 20-40 mil
what percentage of those who got the spanish flu died
20%
what is tuberculosis
a bacterial infection which killed 50% of its victims
what was spread mainly by gay men through america in the 1980s
HIV which is spread the the mixing of bodily fluids and causes aids
what is aids
a disease which lowers the body’s immune system and by 2014 40mil had died of it
what virus was there recently and epidemic of in west africa
ebola virus (2013-16)
