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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
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No risk of importing bubonic plague into Russia, says sanitary watchdog
Earlier, a case of infection with bubonic plague was confirmed in Mongolia MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. Russia's Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing ...
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Is the Bubonic Plague Still Around?
Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...
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Causes and effects of the Black Death
This trade helped bubonic plague to spread from Asia to European countries. Bubonic plague is believed to have arrived in the country on a ship landing on the Dorset coast from Gascony in France.
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Deadly Diseases
As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...