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• a  of or evidencing buboes
  bubonic plague

• Bubonic and pneumonic plague are forms of the same disease.
• In the Thirty Years' War, an estimated 8,000,000 Germans were wiped out by flea-borne bubonic plague and louse-borne typhus fever.
• Modern inoculations against bubonic plague cut down its mortality rate; scientific rat hunts and sanitary measures can prevent its spread.

News & Articles

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• Carr: Testimony reveals lengthy rat trail
  Pay no attention to that cheese on his breath, or his long tail, or his feral teeth, or the fact that he tests positive for the Bubonic plague. Whitey Bulger is not a rat. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it. But after yesterday’s testimony in his federal murder trial here, surely it would be a more believable story for Whitey to claim that he was in fact a lousy rat, the worst kind of rat ...
  June 25, 2013 - Boston Herald
• Testimony reveals lengthy rat trail
  Pay no attention to that cheese on his breath, or his long tail, or his feral teeth, or the fact that he tests positive for the Bubonic plague. Whitey Bulger is not a rat. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it. But after yesterday’s testimony in his federal murder trial here, surely it would be a more believable story for Whitey to claim that he was in fact a lousy rat, the worst kind of rat ...
  June 25, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Brian Smith in The Canberra Times
  I can't believe that we've won the game by 39-12 and we still haven't won the penalty count,Smith said. "We were all over them [Souths] like a rash, a bubonic plague-type rash. It's unbelievable. From my point of view, we got no favours...
• Jeb Hensarling in Christian Science Monitor
  Not only does Congress have an approval rating below bubonic plague and head lice, I saw a recent poll that as many as 40 percent of people still believe that Congress is in Republican hands,says Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R) of Texas. "I wish...
• Barry Mann in WFAA
  They think there is this Northern European gene pool that somehow survived the bubonic fleas,said Mr. Mann, who traces his ancestry to the British Isles.