| Pneumonia was prevalent, the bubonic plague was endemic, and doctors were little more than optimistic quacks. |
| 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. |
| Though the bubonic plague's namesake buboes are not visible in the picture, their painful presence can be intuited from the victims' postures. |
| Some researchers now believe that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, originated in the village where builders of Tutankhamun's tomb lived. |
| Remarkably, he inoculated himself with pus from a suppurating bubo to fortify himself against bubonic plague. |
| They are known carriers of several deadly diseases, among them the bubonic plague. |
