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Symptoms

Following an incubation period of 2-10 days, the disease begins suddenly with a high fever, severe headache, great weakness, and pains in the back and limbs. There may be vomiting and diarrhea.

The fever may go up to 104o F. the first day, accompanied by intense thirst.

Buboes (swollen places) begin to appear the second day in the groin, under the arms, and in the neck.

The disease causes great weakness, and death often occurs sometime between the third and sixth day.

Causes

In the bubonic form of the plague, the lymph glands swell; when swollen, they are called "buboes."

This is a disease carried by the Norway rat. The bacteria are in its droppings, which it leaves in the food stuffs it has broken into and partly eaten.

In earlier centuries, several outbreaks of the plague occurred; during one of which one-sixth of the people of Europe died.

There is also a pneumonic form of the plague, which is far less common. The symptoms are about the same as pneumonia, but it is transmitted through the air and is extremely contagious.

The plague essentially never occurs in the Western world today. We mention it here so you will be aware of the symptoms.

Treatments

• Call a physician. Living cleanly and eating right is the best prevention. Healthy, rested, people can resist infection better than others.

This page was last modified on 2 December 2010, at 21:59.

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