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.
Between 1347 and 1350, a mysterious disease known as the Black Death (the bubonic plague) killed some 20 million people in Europeâ30 percent of the continentâs population. It was especially deadly in cities, where it was impossible to prevent the transmission of the disease from one person to another.