The disease is spread ... Bubonic plague can cause swelling of the lymph nodes. If untreated, it could spread to the blood and lungs. Other symptoms included fever, vomiting and chills.

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century ... of a flea that has first feasted on an infected rodent. Initial symptoms — sudden fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea — are ...

Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who probably got the disease from a sick pet cat. The infected resident and the person's close contacts have ...

But they did not have a concept of a disease being spread by microbes ... of it going back to 1500 and it describes the symptoms of Bubonic Plague. Psychiatrists and folklorists tell us that ...

Its main symptoms are fever ... rather than the miasma believed to be causing the disease. Plague victims were locked in their houses for 40 days and a red cross was painted on their door.