The plague, also known as the bubonic plague, ravaged Europe rapidly, transmitted by fleas on rats. The disease was notorious for causing terrible skin lesions, swollen lymph nodes, and a high ...

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague ... In England, the plague took on the name Black Death, because of the characteristic spots that started under the skin as a deep red and ...

California officials denied—and tried to hide—the first plague epidemic that reached U.S. shores Sarah Holzmann Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague infections, all stemming from the ...

The virus, which causes skin lesions, swollen lymph nodes and ... last week announced the state’s first human case of bubonic plague in almost a decade. The person in question, a resident ...

It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ... of the plague. Various causes were put forward. Today we know that there were two main forms of plague: Bubonic plague ...