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What is the Bubonic Plague?
The Bubonic Plague is a disease that is caused by a germ called Yersinia pestis. It
is spread to humans by fleas from infected rodents. In the 1300s, fourth of the population
of Europe was destroyed. The disease causes swelling of the lymph glands (up to the size
of a hens egg). The Greek word for groin is boubon, which is bubonic. The number of
reported human cases of this plague in the United States has increased since the 1960s
because the environment isn't staying clean.
How do you get this disease? When a rat is infected, the flea bites the rat then the
flea gets infected. The disease fills the stomach of the flea making it so the flea can't
digest any more blood. The flea then becomes so hungry that it bites the human. Now the
human is infected. The first symptoms are headaches, nausea, vomiting and aching
joints. Some others are fever, chills, the most horrible: the skin turns black.
In the 1300s the plague spread so quickly in......

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