An infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and is transmitted to humans from infected rats by the oriental rat flea. It is named for the characteristic feature of buboes (painfully enlarged lymph nodes) in the groin, armpits, neck, and elsewhere. Other symptoms of bubonic plague include headache, fever, chills, and weakne [..]

Thought to have been the cause of the Black Death, the bubonic plague is caused by a bacterial infection of the lymphatic system, the network of capillary vessels in the human body. The plague is most [..]

a bacterial disease that is often fatal and is transmitted between mammalian hosts by fleas. Read more on: Bubonic plague

A form of plague in which lymph nodes in the groin and armpit swell

A bacterial disease of rodents and man caused by Pasteurella pestis

A disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, delerium, swollen lymph nodes and black spots on the skin