Bubonic Plague

Bubonic plague


black death orBubonic plague
Classification and external resources
A person infected with bubonic plague.
Bubonic plague is the best known manifestation of the bacterial disease plague.The term "bubonic plague" was often used synonymously for plague, but it does in fact refer specifically to an infection that enters through the skin and travels through the lymphathics, as is often seen in flea-borne infections. Bubonic plague kills about half of infected patients in 3–7 days without treatment and may have been the cause of the black death that in the 1300s killing more than 25 million people, a third of the European population.