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plague

(plāg),
1. Any disease of wide prevalence or of excessive mortality.
2. An acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and marked clinically by high fever, toxemia, prostration, a petechial eruption, lymph node enlargement, pneumonia, or hemorrhage from the mucous membranes; primarily a disease of rodents, transmitted to humans by fleas that have bitten infected animals. In humans the disease takes one of four clinical forms: bubonic plague, septicemic plague, pneumonic plague, or ambulant plague Synonym(s): pest, pestilence (1) , pestis
[G. plege, a stroke, a wound; L. plaga, a stroke, injury]
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The plague in Madagascar today is an offshoot of what is known as the "third plague pandemic," a global dispersion of Yersinia pestis that radiated from China in the late 19th century.
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Microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, pathologists, and other medical researchers draw on principles and techniques of systems biology to study Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the bubonic plague, and other members of the genus Yersinia.
The bacterium that causes the plague, Yersinia pestis, still exists, though the disease occurs rarely these days, and when it does it is seldom lethal.
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