Bubonic plague

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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The patient's entire body was covered with strange black bumps (inguinal gland abscesses), which were the size of eggs and bled pus intermittently. Symptoms such as fever, boils, and black spots on the skin would appear. After suffering from the disease for four or five days, the patient would die in agony. The bacteria of the plague could survive for a very long time—even in dried blood sputum particles, it could remain viable for over five months. Therefore, clothing, furs, grains, and leather that had once been stored in plague-infected warehouses were like time bombs, ready to explode at any moment. After the plague spread around the world and returned to Kaffa, it eventually vanished near Kyiv in Russia. During the long years of its rampant destruction, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East lost nearly half of their population. There is more exciting content.