bubonic plague
noun
: plague caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and characterized especially by the formation of buboes
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This particular pathway, along with booming trade between the United States and China, eventually paved the way for cases in the continental U.S.
From Hong Kong, a major shipping port, the bubonic plague traveled to other global port cities.
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Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Hamnet, undoubtedly her chef d’oeuvre, tells of a family in 1590s Stratford, England, during the bubonic plague.
—Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
The quarantine and isolation measures that helped arrest the bubonic plague proved ineffective against the six pandemics of cholera that swept the United States, the Middle East, Russia, and Europe in the nineteenth century.
—Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2020
Overall global numbers last declined about 700 years ago, in the wake of the bubonic plague that tore through much of Eurasia.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Hamnet, undoubtedly her chef d’oeuvre, tells of a family in 1590s Stratford, England, during the bubonic plague.
—Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
The quarantine and isolation measures that helped arrest the bubonic plague proved ineffective against the six pandemics of cholera that swept the United States, the Middle East, Russia, and Europe in the nineteenth century.
—Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2020
Overall global numbers last declined about 700 years ago, in the wake of the bubonic plague that tore through much of Eurasia.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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