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Bubonic Plague
/bjuːˈbɒ.nɪkˌpleɪɡ/
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What does Bubonic Plague mean?
noun
- A contagious, often fatal, epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted by the bite of fleas from an infected person or rodent, especially a rat, and characterized by delirium, chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the formation of buboes.
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/bjuːˈbɒ.nɪkˌpleɪɡ/
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About the middle of the fourteenth century the bubonic plague made another incursion from the East.
But so have diminished and, in fact, nearly disappeared the plague, the Black Death, cholera, the bubonic plague, yellow fever and numerous other epidemic pests which only recently decimated entire nations.