Great Plague of Vienna [SEP] point in time
Great Plague of Vienna
The Great Plague of Vienna occurred in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers. From contemporary descriptions, the disease is believed to have been bubonic plague, which is caused by the bacterium "Yersinia pestis", carried by fleas associated with the black rat and other rodents. The city was crippled by the epidemic, which recurred fitfully into the early 1680s, claiming an estimated 76,000 residents.
Vienna, located on the Danube River, was a major trading crossroads
to have been bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium "Yersinia pestis", transmitted via a rat vector. Other symptom patterns of the bubonic plague, such as septicemic plague and pneumonic plague were also present.
Bibliography.
- Pakhare, Jayashree. "Black Death—the Black Plague." Buzzle.Com. 16 Sept. 2007. 15 Feb. 2008 http://www.buzzle.com/articles/black-death-the-black-plague.html.
See also.
- Second plague pandemic
- Great Plague of London
- Great Plague of Vienna
- Bubonic Plague