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What ended the black death plague in the 14th century ?

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i know what finished it in the 16th century but what stop the plague in the 14th century

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  1. hello

    the disease had an exceptionally high death rate,around 95% , so in general the fittest/healthiest had a chance of survival

    most methods taken to end the disease were not successful

    but there were methods that did work:

    - In Milan, to take one of the most successful examples, city officials immediately walled up houses found to have the plague, isolating the healthy in them along with the sick.

    - Venice took sophisticated and stringent quarantine and health measures, including isolating all incoming ships on a separate island.

    But people died anyway, though fewer in Milan and Venice than in cities that took no such measures.

    - Pope Clement VI, living at Avignon, sat between two large fires to breath pure air. The plague bacillus actually is destroyed by heat, so this was one of the few truly effective measures taken.

    there are theories that the black rats were the carriers of the disease, but the brown rat is a lot more aggressive ... and therefore where they resided the black rats never gained a foothold , and therefore the disease never spread

    in the end basic hygiene ended the disease ... people washed their hands, avoided dirty water , burnt the dead, or buried them deeply


  2. It simply ran its course. The people that survived simply were strong enough to fight off the illness. And with the plague running, people didn't travel as much, which eventually hindered it's spread.

  3. I think pretty much it just ended out of no where. Just stopped infecting people...

    However the plague was still alive just not as visible until later centuries like the 16th

  4. two things really

    1) people stopped massing in the city and moved out into the rural areas because it warmed up

    2) and people began to bathe on a regular bases

    but we don't really know what it was for all we know what it was but if it is the bubonic then it is still here today just not as wide spread  

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