Plague
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In Plague, a total of 634 epidemic events are known so far. Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. Usually the disease starts one to seven days after infection. There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different part of the body and causing corresponding symptoms. Pneumonic plague infects the lungs and causes shortness of breath, coughing and chest pain; bubonic plague affects the lymph nodes and causes them to swell; and septicemic plague infects the blood and can cause tissue to turn black and die.
Bubonic plague and septicemic plague are usually transmitted through flea bites or handling an infected animal, while pneumonic plague is usually transmitted between people through infectious droplets in the air. Diagnosis is usually made by detecting the bacterium in the fluid of a lymph node, in the blood or in sputum.
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 Amrāḍ • Appetite • Bellyache • Black Death • Blood spitting • Carboncles • Chest pain • Cold • Cough • Dāʾ • Dearth • Disease • Ergotism • Epidemics • Fanāʾ • Fever • Glene • Headache • Heat • Influenza • Kidneyache • Korkota • Leprosy • Malaria • Mortality • Mumps • Ophthalmic disease • Pestilence • Picota • Plague • Properieulle • Rheumatism • Rubeola • Rougerieulle • Seasickness • Sleep • Smallpox • Shoulderache • Sweating sickness • Swellings • Symptoms • Syphilis • Throat disease • Ṭāʿūn • Ulcers • Vérole • Wabāʾ • Zoonotic |
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