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Monster Essays - The Bubonic Plague
The Bubonic Plague
The first symptoms of the bubonic plague are headache, vomiting, nausea,
aching joints and a feeling of ill health. The lymph nodes of the groin or
of the armpit or neck suddenly start to become swollen and painful. The
pulse and respiration rate of a bubonic plague victim is increased, and the
victim will become listless and exhausted. The buboes will swell until they
are approximately the size of a chicken egg. If a case is nonfatal than the
temperature will begin to fall in about five days, and approaches normal in
about two weeks, but in fatal cases death will probably occur within fou....
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