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Plague - any contagious, malignant, epidemic disease, in particular the bubonic plague and the black plague both forms of the same infection. These acute febrile diseases are caused by Yersinia pestis ...
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Bubonic Plague
Plague is a vector-borne illness, meaning it requires a living host to carry it from one animal to another. Most of the time, a specific species of flea -- Xenopsylla cheopis -- is the vector.
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Alternate Names : Bubonic plague, Pneumonic plague, Septicemic plague
Definition
Plague is a severe and potentially deadly bacterial infection.
Bubonic plague usually has an incubation period of 2 to 6 days, occasionally longer. The patient experiences chills, fever; myalgias; arthralgias; headache; and a feeling of weakness.
Bubonic plague
This is the most common type of plague in humans, accounting for the majority of naturally occurring cases.
Bubonic plague: The most common form of the plague, named for the characteristic buboes - buboes are enlarged lymph nodes ("swollen glands") - in the groin which are usually very tender and painful.
Bubonic plague was the most common, spread by fleas and rodents. Lymph nodes would swell in the armpits, neck and groin, to the size of an egg or apple, and would turn black from subdermal bleeding.
Bubonic plague; Pneumonic plague; Septicemic plague
Prevention:
Rat control and surveillance of the disease in the wild rodent population are the main measures used to control the risk of epidemics.
Bubonic plague; Pneumonic plague; Septicemic plague
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Plague is caused by the organism Yersinia pestis. Rodents, such as rats, spread the disease to humans.
Bubonic plague: The bacteria that cause plague can thrive and grow in the flea’s esophagus. This crowding of bacterial growth prevents food from entering the flea’s stomach. To overcome starvation, the flea begins a blood-sucking rampage.
BUBONIC PLAGUE (The Plague)
SYMPTOMS"Following an incubation period of 2-10 days, the disease begins suddenly with a high fever, severe headache, great weakness, and pains in the back and limbs. There may be vomiting and diarrhea.
Bubonic plague is an illness caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This bacterium is carried by a certain type of flea, commonly known as a rat flea, which infects humans and animals.
Bubonic Plague
Plague is a specific, inoculable, and otherwise communicable epidemic disease common to man and many of the lower animals.
The first signs of bubonic plague are fever, chills, weakness, and tender lymph nodes 2 to 10 days after a flea bite. Bubonic plague can spread to the blood, lungs, and nervous system.
Plague/Black Death: Bubonic Plague
Pleurisy: Inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the chest cavity. Symptoms are chills, fever, dry cough, and pain in the affected side (a stitch).
Pneumonia: Inflammation of the lungs ...
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A person usually becomes ill with bubonic plague 2 to 6 days after being infected. When bubonic plague is left untreated, plague bacteria invade the bloodstream.
Acral necrosis is a symptom common in bubonic plague. The striking black discoloration of skin and tissue, primarily on the extremities, is commonly thought to have given rise to the name "Black Death, ...
Persons with bubonic plague, the most common form of plague, typically develop painful, swollen lymph nodes near the site of an infective flea bite.
Bubonic plague (in the lymph nodes)-occurring after a rodent-flea bite
Septicemic plague (a body system-wide infection)-occurring after a rodent-flea bite ...
septsimk ple noun a form of bubonic plague in which the symptoms are generalised throughout the body
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Tularemia can be spread by deer fly bites, the bubonic plague by fleas, and the epidemic typhus rickettsia by lice.
Various mosquitoes spread viral diseases (such as equine encephalitis; dengue and yellow fever in humans and other animals).
Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the bubonic plague
which in the year 541 (as the Black Death) and later in the Middle Ages decimated Europe. The effects of the plague are described in the nursery rhyme "We all fall down." ...
However, a few species of bacteria are pathogenic and cause infectious diseases, including cholera, syphilis, anthrax, leprosy and bubonic plague.
Much later, the history recorded how distillation techniques came to be improved by Persians and more particularly the Persian physician called Avicenna. Later, aromatic herbs came to be used during the infamous Bubonic Plague to disinfect the ...
include most of the bacteria normally found in the gastrointestinal tract that can be responsible for disease as well as gonococci (venereal disease) and meningococci (bacterial meningitis). The organisms responsible for cholera and bubonic plague ...
Fleas are known to transmit tapeworm larvae and, uncommonly, the disease murine typhus. They are most notorious for transmitting bubonic plague from wild rodents to humans in certain parts of the world (not Australia).
The boils which were one of the plagues in Egypt were apparently the bubonic plague. The terms Aleppo boil (or button), Delhi boil, Oriental boil, Biskra button, &c.
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 See also: Plague, Symptom, Fever, Death, Yersinia pestis
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