TED Cast Study BUBONIC - 1 views
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Between 1339 and 1351 AD, a pandemic of plague traveled from China to Europe, known in Western history as The Black Death
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The Black Death was actually a combination of three different types of plague: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicaemic, with bubonic being the most common
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The initial symptom is a blackish pustule forming over the point of the bite, followed by swollen lymph nodes near that bite.
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