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 * __Plagues and Diseases of the Russian Tsars__**

**The Early Years**

Plagues and diseases

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 * The bubonic plague was a bacterial disease that went across Europe in The 14th century John T Alexander, Bubonic plague in early modern Russia, Kansas, oxford University, 1989
 * The plague was spread by rats and particularly by the fleas on rats and you would catch this plague as well from other peoples infections
 * The disease enters your skin and travels through the lymphatic system [[image:the-bubonic-plague.jpg align="right"]]
 * This disease kills 50% of the patients without treatment in several days
 * This was a very big problem for peasants in Russian society because they did not have very good hygiene and had little money for treatment.
 * Pest like rats were a very prevalent and constant problem
 * The bubonic plague was often known as the black plague
 * The bubonic plague was spread by flea’s, rodents, and direct human contact
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 * Some symptoms of the bubonic plague were headaches and chills []
 * There was not a lot the peasants could do about this disease, but one of the methods they believe would work was bleeding.
 * This was the process of cutting the patient to try to get all the bad blood out of them, but this was really ineffective and served only to make the victims weaker and often sped up their deaths. John T Alexander, Bubonic plague in early modern Russia, Kansas, oxford University, 1989
 * There was no known number of how many people the bubonic people killed, but the number has been estimated conservatively at over 10 million people in Europe alone
 * Peasants would often not bury their people who died from this plague properly and the bodies would end up spreading the disease to more rats and flea’s infecting more people