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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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In addition, it is believed to have about 5,000 tons of chemical and biological agents, including sarin, anthrax, smallpox and the bubonic plague.
Its scientists work with the deadliest known disease agents, including bubonic plague, anthrax and the ebola virus.
In all, tens of thousands, and perhaps as many 200,000, Chinese died of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases.
Rest assured that only on rare occasions do epidemics such as bubonic plague in India and diphtheria in Russia present a much more widespread threat.
Both pneumonic plague and bubonic plague are caused by the same organism.
No vaccine currently is available for pneumonic or bubonic plague.

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