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What does bubonic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to buboes.
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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.

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