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Some of the major infectious diseases (past and present) that have afflicted (and continue to afflict) humans. This is a writable document.
You need to complete the table for 7 bacterial diseases, 7 viral diseases, 4 "protist" diseases, and 2 fungal diseases. If you can't do this on a
computer for some reason, let me know (quickly) and I'll print out an expanded version.
Disease
Black (Bubonic) Plague
Pathogen (type and
specific)
Bacteria; Yersinia pestis
Mode of Teansmission
Clinical Manifestations
Prognosis/mortality rate
Transmitted by the bite of
an infected flea… rodents
helped to spread the
disease.
Body sores that ooze pus,
fever, nausea
In the middle ages,
sanitation was not good.
Neither was treatment.
Almost half of Europeans
died.