Poveglia Island
Due to its dark past, Poveglia Island off the coast of Venice and Lido, Italy, is known as the "Island of Ghosts." the location that makes both the police and the taxi driver nervous.
Local legends claim that if anyone displayed even the smallest signs of the black death, they were dragged kicking and screaming to the island.
Poveglia served as a port of entry for ships bound for Venice in the late 19th century. The island was isolated and made into a quarantine area for people with infectious diseases when two ships carrying plague victims arrived there in 1793. It quickly turned into a graveyard for Europeans who were succumbing to the plague. Rumors persist today that the island is still inhabited by the ghosts of the tormented.
In order to stop the disease from spreading, the estimated 160,000 fatalities are believed to have been incinerated on the 7 hectare property that was also utilised as a mass grave.
According to some reports, the soil on the island still contains more than 50% human ash.
In the 1920s, it was rumoured that gruesome experiments, including lobotomies, were performed in a facility that once treated mental patients.
According to mythology, one of the mental health experts tormented and killed a number of the patients before turning "crazy" and leaping to his death from the bell tower. He survived the fall, but was "strangled by a mist that crept up from the ground," according to the same version. Its ruins are all still there today.
Later, when it was transformed into an asylum and people were pushed there to hide from inquisitive eyes, they began to do horrifying, horrifying experiments on them.
This island is one of the most haunted islands and scares the heart of everyone that enters it.
What is black death virus?
How many people perished during the Black Death?
The precise number of persons who perished during the Black Death is unknown. Between 1347 and 1351, the plague is thought to have killed some 25 million people in Europe.
The Black Death: what was its cause?
As a result of plague, an infectious disease brought on by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, it is thought that the Black Death occurred. By biting humans, infected fleas most likely spread the disease from rodents to people.
What place did the Black Death start?
Early to mid-1300s saw the beginning of the Black Death, which spread from China along trade routes to the Mediterranean and northern Africa. Southern England was affected in 1348, whereas northern Britain and Scandinavia were by 1350.
What signs and symptoms did the Black Death exhibit?
Bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plague are the three forms of plague that Yersinia causes in people. Although Yersinia was found in the DNA of Black Death victims, it is unclear which type the infection predominated in those individuals. All three of them most likely contributed to the pandemic in some way.
Fever, exhaustion, chills, nausea, headaches, giddiness, intolerance to light, discomfort in the back and limbs, insomnia, apathy, and delirium are all symptoms of bubonic plague. Additionally, it leads to buboes, which are sore and swollen lymph nodes that typically develop in the groyne or armpits.
Pneumonic plague attacks the lungs and manifests as fever, weakness, and shortness of breath—symptoms that are similar to those of severe pneumonia. If left untreated, fluid fills the lungs and might result in death. Insomnia, stupor, a stumbling stride, a speech difficulty, and memory loss are examples of further symptoms.
The blood is infected with septicemic plague. Internal bleeding, tiredness, and fever are some of its symptoms.
