There are many terrible diseases in the world. The old ones disappear, but completely new ones come in their place. A very dangerous and unpleasant disease is the bubonic plague. Often it gives complications in the form of scars and scars that can remain on the human body for life.
Bubonic plague infection
This disease ( bubonic plague ) refers to the infectious type and proceeds, as a rule, always in an acute form. Bacteria called Yersinia pestis cause it to become infected. Bubonic plague spreads very quickly, which means that real epidemics of this disease often occur.
Wild rodents spread the plague: most often these are the most ordinary rats or tarbagans. These animals usually have a lot of fleas that constantly migrate from one individual to another. Thus, the causative agents of plague spread between animals. Epizootia is an outbreak of disease in animals. As a result, rodents that live in a person’s house can be infected. Even with little contact with infected rodents, the bubonic plague can pass to any of us. This refers to a simple touch on a rodent, and a bite of a plague flea.
Plague bacillus does not need wounds on the body in order to penetrate the body, as it can even pass through completely healthy skin. Once in the body, the pathogen causes inflammation of the lymph nodes - this is called bubonic plague.
From person to person, this disease is transmitted extremely rarely.
How is this disease?
On average, the incubation period in this case does not exceed six days, although it may end already on the second day. The first symptoms include:
- chills;
- high temperature;
- very severe headache;
- myalgia;
- great weakness;
- arthralgia;
- fever and everything connected with it.
After some time, there is pain in the lymph nodes. As a rule, in the first place, the lymph nodes that are in the groin suffer. This can be explained by the fact that in most cases the infection enters the body through a flea bite in the leg. Very soon, the pain in the lymph nodes becomes very severe. Numerous buboes appear on the body, and any movement causes discomfort and terrible pain.
Under the bubo, redness and swelling of the skin occurs. It is worth adding that the skin itself under it acquires a bluish tint over time. At the very beginning, the bubo consistency is cartilaginous, but a little later in its very center various areas of swelling, as well as fluctuations - this suggests that a lot of pus has accumulated inside. Over time, the bubo will open by itself, and pus will flow out of it along with blood. The result of all this will be ulcers and fistulas that will heal for a very long time, and after them will leave large scars.
Bubonic plague: treatment
At the very beginning of treatment, antibiotics are prescribed, which lead to a decrease in symptoms about a week after the first use. Although the bubonic plague is poorly transmitted from person to person, patients still try to isolate as much as possible from each other and from other people. Contact between a person infected with bubonic plague and someone who is ill with something else is considered unacceptable. In addition to taking antibiotics, special dressings are used that are applied to especially resistant buboes. These dressings are saturated with a special ointment that also contains antibiotics. Festering, but not wishing to open, buboes can be removed surgically.
In our society, there is an opinion that a person who has suffered from bubonic plague remains contagious for life. This is not true. A person can be cured of this disease in a month. After discharge, he poses absolutely no danger to others.