The Origin and Spread of the Bubonic Plague (1446 words, 3 pages)
Plague, was a term that was applied in the Middle Ages to all fatal epidemic diseases, but now it is only applied to an acute, infectious, contagious disease of rodents and humans, caused by a short, thin, gram-negative bacillus. In humans, plague occurs in three forms bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, ...
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