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What is bubonic plague?

What is bubonic plague? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) 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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No vaccine currently is available for pneumonic or bubonic plague.
They are known carriers of several deadly diseases, among them the bubonic plague.
Pneumonia was prevalent, the bubonic plague was endemic, and doctors were little more than optimistic quacks.
In all, tens of thousands, and perhaps as many 200,000, Chinese died of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases.
In addition to treating tuberculosis, streptomycin was effective against typhoid fever, cholera, bubonic plague and other diseases.
Both pneumonic plague and bubonic plague are caused by the same organism.

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