bubonic plague
noun
: plague caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and characterized especially by the formation of buboes
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Untreated bubonic plague can turn into the more serious pneumonic plague, which causes rapidly developing pneumonia after bacteria spread to the lungs.
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Susan Scutti, CNN, 5 July 2024
That and, uh, a fight scene involving a tiger, a villain's latex face melting off, and a climax that saw Catwoman corralling her city's kitty population to ward off an army of rats carrying the bubonic plague.
—EW.com, 19 July 2024
From the bubonic plague at the end of the nineteenth century to HIV/AIDS in the 1990s to SARS in 2002–3, Western observers have long viewed China’s responses to epidemic crises as indices of its relative political and economic openness.
—Robert Peckham, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2020
Upon the onset of the Black Death in Italy, high-class nobles and their servants relocate to a countryside villa to await the end of the bubonic plague pandemic.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 27 July 2024
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Susan Scutti, CNN, 5 July 2024
That and, uh, a fight scene involving a tiger, a villain's latex face melting off, and a climax that saw Catwoman corralling her city's kitty population to ward off an army of rats carrying the bubonic plague.
—EW.com, 19 July 2024
From the bubonic plague at the end of the nineteenth century to HIV/AIDS in the 1990s to SARS in 2002–3, Western observers have long viewed China’s responses to epidemic crises as indices of its relative political and economic openness.
—Robert Peckham, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2020
Upon the onset of the Black Death in Italy, high-class nobles and their servants relocate to a countryside villa to await the end of the bubonic plague pandemic.
—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 27 July 2024
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