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 ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

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.

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 ...

The treatment is used for the two most common types of plague: bubonic and pneumonic. “The reason why it caused such widespread death and destruction in the Middle Ages is because we didn’t ha ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bubonic plague — the kind contracted by the Oregon resident — happens when the plague bacteria gets into the lymph nodes. It can cause fever, headache, weakness and painful, swollen lymph nodes.

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 ...

The microbe that caused the bubonic plague that wiped out millions of Europeans in the 14th century - also known as the Black Death - started out as a mild stomach bug. The Yersinia pestis ...