Elizabethan+Illnesses+(Lisa+and+Katherine)

=__Elizabethan Illnesses__= Lisa Ercolano and Katherine Fila

General Illnesses

 * Head and stomach pains, broken bones, lung problems, and wounds were all [|common medical conditions]
 * [|Dysentery] was another common Elizabethan condition, spread by ingesting contaminated food and water

The Black Death: Bubonic Plague

 * [|The Bubonic Plague], a deady infectious virus, was one of the worst plagues of all time
 * Caused by the bacteria; [|Yersinia pestis] ,the plague destroyed nearly 1/2 of Elizabethan England's population
 * Spread by rats and fleas, the plague struck around 1347 to 1351

Typhoid Fever

 * [|Typhoid Fever], spread by the bacteria, salmenella typhi, was also a common disease in Shakespearean England
 * Because of the lack of running water, England used pumps which carried Typhoid in the polluted water