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Article: Plague
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Plague
What Is Plague?
How Common Is Plague?
How Is Plague Spread?
What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Plague?
How Do Doctors Diagnose and Treat Plague?
How Can People Prevent Becoming Infected?
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Plague (PLAYG) is a potentially serious bacterial infection that is spread to humans by infected rodents and their fleas
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Biological weapon
Bioterrorism
Black Death
Buboes
Bubonic plague
Pneumonic plague
Septicemic plague
Yersinia pestis
Zoonoses
What Is Plague?
Plague is a disease caused by the bacterium
Yersinia pestis
(yer-SIN-e-uh PES-tis). It has been in existence for at least 2,000 years ...