bubonic plague
noun
: plague caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and characterized especially by the formation of buboes
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Hamnet, undoubtedly her chef d’oeuvre, tells of a family in 1590s Stratford, England, during the bubonic plague.
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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
The administration has, however, been quick to invoke the draconian British-era Epidemics Act of 1897, imposed during an outbreak of bubonic plague.
—Vidya Krishnan, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2020
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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
The administration has, however, been quick to invoke the draconian British-era Epidemics Act of 1897, imposed during an outbreak of bubonic plague.
—Vidya Krishnan, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2020
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