Diseases

Septicemic Plague(Black Death,Plague Facts)

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An epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence. 2. an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas. Compare bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague.

SYMPTOMS

Bubonic plague symptoms and signs include painful and enlarged or swollen lymph nodes (an enlarged lymph node due to plague is called a bubo), chills, headache, fever, and weakness. Septicemic plague (black death or black plague) symptoms and signs include fever, weakness, abdominal pain, chills, and shock.

CAUSES

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria known as yersinia pestis.,Plague has a high fatality rate and has been described for centuries.,In the middle ages, plague was known as the "black death." ...,Transmission occurs via fleas that feed on infected animals, typically wild rodents.