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What fruits of civilization are the most dangerous?

According to the English researcher J. Livlon, the "three Cs" lead a person to death. This is a chain saw, car, cattle (English) - chainsaw, car, cattle breeding. They contribute to deforestation and increase the greenhouse effect.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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What is plague?

The first written mention of the plague was in the Old Testament. The Philistines defeated the Israelites and were punished with the plague. Plague is an acute infectious disease that first affects rats and other rodents and then humans. It is caused by the microbe Bacillus pestis.

Fleas that feed on rodents spread the disease to humans by biting them. A person who has the plague develops a fever, shivering, and tumors appear in the groin. Spots appear on the skin. Due to the fact that these spots were dark in color and many people died from this disease, the plague was called the Black Death in the Middle Ages. It was also called the bubonic plague for the reason that the tumors in the groin were called the Greek word "bubo", which means "groin".

In English, the name of this disease is sometimes used in relation to any dangerous epidemic. One of the worst plagues in human history broke out in the fourteenth century. It began in Central Asia, reached the shores of the Black Sea, then was transported to European ports and spread throughout the continent in five years.

The first reaction to the arrival of the plague was panic, and people tried to leave the disaster area. But not everyone could do it. Various precautions were taken to prevent the spread of the plague. People were isolated in their homes, forbidding them to leave. No one had the right to visit them, and special people brought them food. When a plague patient died, all his property was burned.

The bubonic plague returned to Europe in the XNUMXth century. Almost half of the population of the French city of Lyon has died. About eighty-six thousand people died in Milan, and almost five hundred thousand in the Venetian Republic. Nowadays, everything is done to prevent the spread of the plague, and the main precaution is the control of rodents, especially rats.

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