What is the big difference between (The black Plaque 217BC )and HIV/aid?!
Question: Black Plague is caused by yerrsinia pestis, a bacteria. Other outbreaks of infectious diseases, as mentioned before as in smallpox also are caused by organisms ( in that case a virus) that kill quite rapidly. HIv was discovered quite recently, less than 30 years ago and is really a mutation of a long existing virus that attacks mainly monkeys and one day started to be transmitted to humens, just like avian (or bird) flu attacks birds but one day started to be transmitted to humans (albeit rare and not transmitted from human to human yet, but it may happen in the near future). All the diseases called plagues, although the PLAGUE is caused by y.pestis only, are very acute diseases, wipe out entire populations if untreated, and yes, plague can be treated with antibiotics and cured. As in any other disease, time is of the essence, since once your organs start failing, no antibiotic will do it. nowadays is confined to certain reservoirs in the developed world, like certain rodents as chipmunks, squirrels, etc. and only in certain states like new mexico and oregon. Not rats now as in the plague times, if the city rats get it, there could be a true epidemic. What is seen nowadays is the bubonic plague, not the black plague where there were massive ammounts of bleeding and organ failure. Bubonic causes big lymph nodes and flu like illness and is curable.
Back to HIv which is the cause of AIDS, it takes years, decades, to kill an untreated patient with HIV. The transmission is not through saliva drops, so easy to aquire even in a plane or in school, but through sex and blood. If somebody has HIV and goes to school, he or she won't give it to anyone, unless they have sex and unprotected one. the person with the plague would give it to a lot of people. In the case of HIV education is the main thing to stop the epidemic. All transmission is totally preventable. Is a chronic disease and nowadays with the meds, nobody should be dying from AIDS. I know that may be the numbers look similar, but imagin the population in the earth 1000 or 2000 years ago, was a lot smaller, and also communications were not great. If there were to be a black plague today and if it were untreatable like in those times ( no antibiotics until the 20th century), a huge percentage of the whole world population would die in a matter of days or months. that's why it has been proposed as a possible biological weapon for which we need to be prepared.
Answers: Black Plague is caused by yerrsinia pestis, a bacteria. Other outbreaks of infectious diseases, as mentioned before as in smallpox also are caused by organisms ( in that case a virus) that kill quite rapidly. HIv was discovered quite recently, less than 30 years ago and is really a mutation of a long existing virus that attacks mainly monkeys and one day started to be transmitted to humens, just like avian (or bird) flu attacks birds but one day started to be transmitted to humans (albeit rare and not transmitted from human to human yet, but it may happen in the near future). All the diseases called plagues, although the PLAGUE is caused by y.pestis only, are very acute diseases, wipe out entire populations if untreated, and yes, plague can be treated with antibiotics and cured. As in any other disease, time is of the essence, since once your organs start failing, no antibiotic will do it. nowadays is confined to certain reservoirs in the developed world, like certain rodents as chipmunks, squirrels, etc. and only in certain states like new mexico and oregon. Not rats now as in the plague times, if the city rats get it, there could be a true epidemic. What is seen nowadays is the bubonic plague, not the black plague where there were massive ammounts of bleeding and organ failure. Bubonic causes big lymph nodes and flu like illness and is curable.
Back to HIv which is the cause of AIDS, it takes years, decades, to kill an untreated patient with HIV. The transmission is not through saliva drops, so easy to aquire even in a plane or in school, but through sex and blood. If somebody has HIV and goes to school, he or she won't give it to anyone, unless they have sex and unprotected one. the person with the plague would give it to a lot of people. In the case of HIV education is the main thing to stop the epidemic. All transmission is totally preventable. Is a chronic disease and nowadays with the meds, nobody should be dying from AIDS. I know that may be the numbers look similar, but imagin the population in the earth 1000 or 2000 years ago, was a lot smaller, and also communications were not great. If there were to be a black plague today and if it were untreatable like in those times ( no antibiotics until the 20th century), a huge percentage of the whole world population would die in a matter of days or months. that's why it has been proposed as a possible biological weapon for which we need to be prepared.
The U.S. Government created AIDs
the BIG difference is that one is bacterial and the other is a virus!
oh and i don't think it was 217 BC.. was it?
Rats are the reason for the plague and unprotected sex for AIDS>
the black plaque is a fast moving, air bourne, level four contagen that quickly kills its host. AIDS is a blood transmitted virus that is designed for spreading because it does not quickly kill the host. btw, it think the black plaque was a virus.
so many differences there isn't one that stands out.
1. different causative agents (bacteria vs virus)
2. different modes of transmission (fleas carried by rodents vs sexual or blood to blood contact
3. different incubation periods (1 to 7 days vs 6months to 10+ years)
4.different symptoms
5. plague has a somewhat effective vaccine and hiv/aids doesn't
6. different mortality rates: Plague kills, if untreated, 50-60% of patients. AIDS will eventually kill all its patients (well technically the AIDS patients die of another disease, but that disease was there because the person has AIDS)
If you look at the impact, or the big picture, i guess the big difference is that the outbreaks of plague happened suddenly and would kill so many people in a short amount of time. AIDS kills a lot of people but not so quickly and the impact has built up over the years.
I think that plague was actually later wasn't it (150 ADish)? The Antonine plague? It was smallpox I think. There was an earlier one too in BC that Thucydides wrote about but it was smaller. I don't know of any large plagues around 217 BC though. The Antonine plague was pretty wide spread though- is that what you're thinking of?
There are so many differences between AIDS and plague though I'm not even sure how to list them. First they're spread in different ways, so they don't affect the same amount of people, plus we do have some treatment for AIDS but it basically kills everyone eventually. There was no real treatment for those plagues, whichever one you mean, but they did not kill everyone who was infected.