• The commonest form of plague in humans, characterized by fever, delirium, and the formation of buboes.

  Example sentencesExamples

  • Its scientists work with the deadliest known disease agents, including bubonic plague, anthrax and the ebola virus.
  • Though the bubonic plague's namesake buboes are not visible in the picture, their painful presence can be intuited from the victims' postures.
  • Remarkably, he inoculated himself with pus from a suppurating bubo to fortify himself against bubonic plague.
  • Some researchers now believe that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, originated in the village where builders of Tutankhamun's tomb lived.
  • Both pneumonic plague and bubonic plague are caused by the same organism (i.e., Yersinia pestis).
  • In all, tens of thousands, and perhaps as many 200,000, Chinese died of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases.
  • In humans, plague occurs in three forms: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague.
  • Rodents cost billions of dollars in lost crops each year, and some are carriers of human diseases such as bubonic plague, typhus, and Hanta fever.
  • The Taiwanese military is reportedly trained to handle four types of bacterial or viral attack: anthrax, smallpox, botulism and the bubonic plague.
  • They are known carriers of several deadly diseases, among them the bubonic plague.
  • We know, as fourteenth-century people suspected, that the mortality caused by the bubonic plague of the Black Death was the worst demographic disaster in the history of the world.
  • But, unknown to them, they had been bitten by a flea infected with the bubonic plague at their home in Santa Fe.
  • Pneumonia was prevalent, the bubonic plague was endemic, and doctors were little more than optimistic quacks.
  • This figure does not include victims of actual biological warfare or the effects of diseases such as cholera, bubonic plague, and typhus upon civilians.
  • The best attested pandemics belong to relatively recent history, and to three diseases in particular: bubonic plague, cholera, and influenza.
  • Rest assured that only on rare occasions do epidemics such as bubonic plague in India and diphtheria in Russia present a much more widespread threat.
  • The Black Death was not an epidemic of bubonic plague but a viral haemorrhagic fever with a long incubation period that allowed it to travel far despite the limitations of travel in the Middle Ages.
  • In addition, it is believed to have about 5,000 tons of chemical and biological agents, including sarin, anthrax, smallpox and the bubonic plague.
  • Anthrax, bubonic plague, botulism toxin - the government urgently wants vaccines and treatments for these deadly threats.
  • In addition to treating tuberculosis, streptomycin was effective against typhoid fever, cholera, bubonic plague and other diseases.

  Synonyms

  disease, sickness

The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is transmitted by rat fleas. Epidemics occurred in Europe throughout the Middle Ages (notably as the Black Death and the Great Plague of 1665–6); the disease is still endemic in parts of Asia