Reading Science in 7th Grade! 2013

Awareness: Plagues striking us: 

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             Ever seen the movie contagion? Well the Black Death was a contagion without a cure. In the book When Plague Strikes by James Cross Giblan, Giblin provides information but still manages to make it seem like a scary horror story. The book can give you night mares, but it gives you an awareness of the past. 
              Ever played ring around the Rosie?  People thought Ring Around the Rosie would protect them from the black death, which was what local people called the Bubonic Plague. The black death got it's name name from the fact that one of the effects was that it turned your tongue black.  Today, we would find a cure, but back then science was not as advanced.
              The way the plague started was that during a war with the Mongolians, the Mongolians used biological warfare, in which they turned corpses into cannonballs which contained germs and bacteria. Scary right?
             Meanwhile, all around the world, rats crawled in the streets, in houses and all over towns.     People did not bathe a-lot, this made for an unclean environment which rats enjoyed. The corpses attracted fleas, which traveled among the human population in the fur of the rats.
               This part of the book was really scary especially at night time, when people died or were sick they would be quarantined along with the rest of there family members in case the disease was contagious or had already spread to the other family members but they didn't know it.
                 Here is a fun fact, well sort of if you count deaths as fun; anyway at the peak of the black death over two thirds of the population had died and that was in the world.

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