Scientists now believe the plague spread too fast for rats to be the culprits. Rats have long been blamed for spreading the Black Death around Europe in the 14th century. Specifically, historians have speculated that the fleas on rats are responsible for the estimated 25 million plague deaths between 1347 and 1351.

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.

What caused the Black Death? The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas.

Around September of 1666, the great outbreak ended. The Great Fire of London, which happened on 2-6 September 1666, may have helped end the outbreak by killing many of the rats and fleas who were spreading the plague.

How did it end? The most popular theory of how the plague ended is through the implementation of quarantines. The uninfected would typically remain in their homes and only leave when it was necessary, while those who could afford to do so would leave the more densely populated areas and live in greater isolation.

The plague killed an estimated 25 million people, almost a third of the continent’s population. The Black Death lingered on for centuries, particularly in cities. Outbreaks included the Great Plague of London (1665-66), in which 70,000 residents died.

An outbreak of the bubonic plague in China has led to worry that the “Black Death” could make a significant return. But experts say the disease isn’t nearly as deadly as it was, thanks to antibiotics.

In 1665 the College of Physicians issued a directive that brimstone ‘burnt plentiful’ was recommended for a cure for the bad air that caused the plague. Those employed in the collection of bodies frequently smoked tobacco to avoid catching the plague.

“The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis needs calcium in order to grow at body temperature. “We found that this is because Y. pestis is missing an important enzyme.” Bubonic plague has killed over 200 million people during the course of history and is thus the most devastating acute infectious disease known to man.

It was especially horrifying because it was not just a bubonic plague, meaning that it could attack the lymphatic system and produce painful, pus-filled buboes. It could also be septicemic, entering the bloodstream directly and producing no visible symptoms; or pneumonic, destroying the lungs.

The infection takes three–five days to incubate in people before they fall ill, and another three–five days before, in 80 per cent of the cases, the victims die. Thus, from the introduction of plague contagion among rats in a human community it takes, on average, twenty-three days before the first person dies.

A new study suggests that people who survived the medieval mass-killing plague known as the Black Death lived significantly longer and were healthier than people who lived before the epidemic struck in 1347.

The Great Plague of Marseille was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in western Europe. Arriving in Marseille, France in 1720, the disease killed a total of 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next two years and another 50,000 to the north in surrounding provinces and towns.

Plague was endemic in Constantinople again between 1533 and 1549, between 1552 and 1567, and for most of the remaining 16th century. Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 to it in 1620–21, and again in 1654–57, 1665, 1691, and 1740–42.

1918 flu pandemic (H1N1 virus): 1918–1920 The 1918 influenza pandemic took the lives of anywhere from 50 to 100 million people around the world.

In 1920 one of the most unrelenting pandemics occurred. This is the Spanish flu that has infected about half a billion people and killed 100 million. The Spanish flu holds the official record for the deadliest pandemic officially recorded in history.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.

Since the whole world had been exposed to the virus, and had therefore developed natural immunity against it, the 1918 strain began to mutate and evolve in a process called “antigenic drift.” Slightly altered versions of the 1918 flu reemerged in the winters of 1919-1920 and 1920-1921, but they were far less deadly and …

The Great Famine of Ireland killed almost one-eighth of the population. It proportionally caused more destruction of human life than most modern famines. The Great Famine destroyed the means of survival of more than one-third of the population for five years in a row.

It decimated Ireland’s population, which stood at about 8.5 million on the eve of the Famine. It is estimated that the Famine caused about 1 million deaths between 1845 and 1851 either from starvation or hunger-related disease. A further 1 million Irish people emigrated.

Fishing and the Famine The question is often asked, why didn’t the Irish eat more fish during the Famine? Because people were starving they did not have the energy that would be required to go fishing, haul up nets and drag the boats ashore.

During the Great Famine in Ireland of the 1840s, Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid donated £1,000 to famine relief (equivalent to between US$84,000 and US$216,000 in 2019). A letter written by Irish notables in the Ottoman archives explicitly thanks the Sultan for his help.

The Famine Comes to an End By 1852 the famine had largely come to an end other than in a few isolated areas. This was not due to any massive relief effort – it was partly because the potato crop recovered but mainly it was because a huge proportion of the population had by then either died or left.

Of 98,105 passengers (of whom 60,000 were Irish), 5293 died at sea, 8072 died at Grosse Isle and Quebec, 7,000 in and above Montreal. In total, then, at least 20,365 people perished (the numbers of those that died further along in their journey from illnesses contracted on the coffin ships cannot be ascertained).

Yes, 100k is a great salary to live on in Dublin, even after tax.

The report found Roscommon and Longford to be the safest counties, while Waterford, Louth, Wicklow, and Limerick recorded some of the highest crime rates. Despite being the largest county, Cork has only the ninth highest crime rate of 21 garda divisions — the city centre has lower crime levels than other cities.

But the county capital is only part of what makes Wexford a nice place to live. By far the bigger part is its beaches. Wexford town and the county’s larger towns, including Gorey, Enniscorthy and New Ross, all grew in size during the boom years.

The County Wexford town, classified as Bunclody-Carrickduff in the report, is the worst performer out of 302 towns included.

11 Great Reasons Why You Should Visit Wexford

• Blue Flag Beaches. Wexford is famous for its golden beaches that stretch for miles along a coast that few counties in Ireland can compare.
• Wexford Garden Trail.
• Castles.
• Hook Lighthouse.
• Saltee Islands (and Puffins)
• Dunbrody Famine Ship.
• JFK.
• Irish National Heritage Park.

1. Wexford is a significant population base within the region. At the 2016 Census, the total population within Wexford was 149,722. This represents 3.1% of the State total (4.76 million), 9.4% of the Southern Regional Assembly (1.6 million) and 25.7% of the South-East Strategic Plan- ning Area (SPA) (581,615).

Less than two-fifths of the population lives in towns and villages. Wexford, Enniscorthy, Gorey, and New Ross are the largest towns.

Map of Waterford County County Waterford is one of six counties in the province of Munster. It is situated on the south coast of Ireland. It shares a border with Cork to the west, Tipperary to the north, Kilkenny to the northeast and Wexford to the east.

Named after the Gaelic territory of Tír Eoghain, meaning “Land of Eoghan”. The Irish name Loch Garman means “Garman’s lake/inlet” and is named after a legendary character called Garman Garbh, who was drowned in the mudflats at the mouth of the river Slaney by an enchantress, resulting in the lake that bears his name.