Some researchers now believe that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, originated in the village where builders of Tutankhamun's tomb lived. |
Though the bubonic plague's namesake buboes are not visible in the picture, their painful presence can be intuited from the victims' postures. |
The main form, bubonic, often starts out with fever, chills, and enlarged lymph nodes. |
During the years of 1616-1619 an epidemic, perhaps either bubonic or pneumonic plague, ravaged the coast of New England from Cape Cod to Maine. |
In addition to treating tuberculosis, streptomycin was effective against typhoid fever, cholera, bubonic plague and other diseases. |
In all, tens of thousands, and perhaps as many 200,000, Chinese died of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases. |