How was the Black Death stopped?
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The winter helped kill of fly`s that were infected it and reduce the people that were infected. people also died of in the winter which helped halt the black death. Quarantine contributed and as more people died they where less compact which helped.
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Luck and quarantine.
Comes from italian phrase quaranta giorni - forty days for foreign ships to harbour before unloading.
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To paraphrase history.com the black plague just ran its course and ended by change. However, it reappeared every few generations for quite a while, and eventually, with modern sanitation, it has disappeared almost completely.
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The answer to this is vast. Simply put, the mix of devastation to the population and the fact that we started to, as @noel1 put it, quarantine people helped. There is also a suspicion that that the bacterium killed off those people that were most susceptible to the plague, leaving those who were naturally immune or in better health. So between reduced contact with others, cleaner living because of less population, natural selection and quarantine, our ancestors lived on.
Resources:
Scientific American - Black Death survivors and their descendants went on to live longer
Gale - How the Black Death came to an end
History.com - Medieval Black Death was airborne scientists say
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