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Bubonic plague
Meaning
Noun
●
In Bacterial diseases, Diseases, Fleas & Insect-borne diseases:
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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