bubonic plague
noun
: plague caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and characterized especially by the formation of buboes
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Overall global numbers last declined about 700 years ago, in the wake of the bubonic plague that tore through much of Eurasia.
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Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
The administration has, however, been quick to invoke the draconian British-era Epidemics Act of 1897, imposed during an outbreak of bubonic plague.
—Vidya Krishnan, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2020
Untreated bubonic plague can turn into the more serious pneumonic plague, which causes rapidly developing pneumonia after bacteria spread to the lungs.
—Susan Scutti, CNN, 5 July 2024
That and, uh, a fight scene involving a tiger, a villain's latex face melting off, and a climax that saw Catwoman corralling her city's kitty population to ward off an army of rats carrying the bubonic plague.
—EW.com, 19 July 2024
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Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
The administration has, however, been quick to invoke the draconian British-era Epidemics Act of 1897, imposed during an outbreak of bubonic plague.
—Vidya Krishnan, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2020
Untreated bubonic plague can turn into the more serious pneumonic plague, which causes rapidly developing pneumonia after bacteria spread to the lungs.
—Susan Scutti, CNN, 5 July 2024
That and, uh, a fight scene involving a tiger, a villain's latex face melting off, and a climax that saw Catwoman corralling her city's kitty population to ward off an army of rats carrying the bubonic plague.
—EW.com, 19 July 2024
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