1) Rabbit disease
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Bubonic plague is a zoonotic disease, circulating mainly in fleas on small rodents, and is one of three types of bacterial infections caused by Yersinia pestis (formerly known as Pasteurella pestis), that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Without treatment, the bubonic plague kills about two thirds of infected humans within four days. The ...
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The most common form of plague, characterized by an abrupt onset of fever, chills, weakness, and headache followed by pain, tenderness, and buboes associated with a marked hemorrahagic tendency, the development of of disseminated coagulation, necrotic purpura, and extensive symmetrical gangrene; severe complications include pneumonia and septicemia...
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Bubonic plague has had a major impact on the history of the world. Caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, and transmitted by fleas often found on rats, bubonic plague has killed over 50 million people over the centuries. Burrowing rodent populations across the world keep the disease present in the world today. Outbreaks, though often small, stil...
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(from the article `plague`) The disease in humans has three clinical forms: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Bubonic plague is the best-known form in popular lore, and indeed ... Kitasato was sent to Hong Kong in 1894 to investigate an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Within a month he identified the causative organism of the ... [...
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A bacterial disease of rodents and man caused by Pasteurella pestis and transmitted chiefly by the oriental rat flea; marked by chills, fever, and inflammatory swelling of lymphatic glands.
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<microbiology> This rare bacterial infection due to Yersinia pestis. ... It can cause painful, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, headache and prostration 2-7 days after a flea bite. May also cause pneumonia and sepsis. ... Transmitted in rodents and humans via an infected flea bite. The incubation period is 2-10 days. Yersinia infection is now rar...
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A zoonotic disease vectored by fleas. Rodents form the reservoir species.
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An ancient illness referred to in the bible. Think the philistines made offerings of golden mice - whatever they are. Often referred to as the black death
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. the usual form of plague manifestations of which include inflammatory enlargement of the lymphatic glands in the groin, axillae, or other parts. Synonyms: glandular plague, pestis bubonica, pestis fulminans, pestis major, polyadenitis maligna
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Bubonic plague: The most common form of the plague, named for the characteristic buboes -- buboes are enlarged lymph nodes ('swollen glands') -- in the groin which are usually very tender and painful. Lymph nodes may be similarly affected elsewhere such as in the armpits and neck. Common but less specific features of the disease include headache, f...
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Bubonic plague (black death) is a specific infectious disease, usually appearing in epidemic form, of extraordinary virulence and very rapid course with a tendancy to linger and recur once it has attacked a community. It is characterised by inflammation of the lymphatic glands, by parenchymatous changes in the cerebal membranes, the lungs, kidneys,...
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n] - plague characterized by delirium and the formation of buboes
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bubonic plague The most common form of plague, typically characterized by an abrupt onset of fever, chills, weakness, and headache, followed by pain, tenderness, and lymphadenopathy (buboes) of the regional lymph nodes. Most often the inguinal (relating to or near the groin), femoral (near the femur or thigh), axillary (relating to the armpit), a...
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most common form of plague in humans, marked by the presence of swollen lymph nodes (buboes)
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a bacterial disease that is often fatal and is transmitted between mammalian hosts by fleas.
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a form of plague in which lymph nodes in the groin and armpit swell
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pestis bubonica noun the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person
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Epidemic disease of the Middle Ages; see plague and Black Death
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a very contagious disease caused by bacteria transmitted by fleas; symptoms include chills, fever, and swelling of the lymph glands
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a serious, sometimes fatal, infection with the bacterial toxin Yersinia pestis, transmitted by fleas from infected rodents and characterized by high fever, weakness, and the formation of buboes, esp. in the groin and armpits. Cf. Black Death.
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