Here’s what to know. What is bubonic plague? Bubonic plague is caused by a bacteria named Yersinia pestis and is often spread by fleas on rodents and squirrels, the Centers for Disease Control ...

So here’s all you need to know about bubonic plague. Caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, plague is an infectious disease usually found on small animals and transmitted through fleas or ...

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, you can get it, too. You can even get it from a ...

where doctors would drill a hole in a patient’s head to release bad spirits that were believed to have caused an illness. Some doctors burst the buboes of patients with bubonic plague.

While mortality from starvation increased during the famine, nothing took so many lives as the Bubonic Plague. Warmer climates can cause rodent populations to explode, and this is most likely how ...

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 ...

In 1894, two research physicians had simultaneously and independently identified the bacillus that causes bubonic plague. Shibasaburo Kitasato published his findings in Japanese and English ...

How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause remains a mystery The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause ...