What is a cardiac stress test using medicine? Medicine will be used to stress your heart instead of exercise. This medicine will increase your heart rate and/or open up (dilate) the heart arteries. This test may show evidence of blockages in the heart arteries when the heart is stressed. You can be scheduled for one of the following:
The Black Death or Black Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346â53.
Most are in the West, where the Yersinia pestis bacteria that causes plague lives in rats, squirrels and other rodents and the fleas that infest them. While the Black Death may have wiped out one-third of Europe's population in the 1300s, it couldn't happen today. Antibiotics are a very effective treatment.Today about 90% of plague victims who get prompt medical attention survive.hile the Black Death may have wiped out one-third of Europe's population in the 1300s, it couldn't happen today. Antibiotics are a very effective treatment. Today about 90% of plague victims who get prompt medical attention survive.