bubonic plague
noun
: plague caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and characterized especially by the formation of buboes
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While the bubonic plague affects lymph nodes, septicemic plague affects the blood.
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Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
The bubonic plague is the most common form of the bacterial infection, which spreads naturally among rodents like prairie dogs and rats.
—CBS News, 12 July 2025
Along with fever, headache and chills, someone with the bubonic plague may get swollen painful lymph nodes called buboes.
—Sacbee.com, 11 July 2025
One type, bubonic plague, was the main cause of the fourteenth century’s Black Death pandemic, which left a trail of death and devastation across Europe.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 11 July 2025
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Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025
The bubonic plague is the most common form of the bacterial infection, which spreads naturally among rodents like prairie dogs and rats.
—CBS News, 12 July 2025
Along with fever, headache and chills, someone with the bubonic plague may get swollen painful lymph nodes called buboes.
—Sacbee.com, 11 July 2025
One type, bubonic plague, was the main cause of the fourteenth century’s Black Death pandemic, which left a trail of death and devastation across Europe.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 11 July 2025
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