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Is bubonic plague a fungus or bacterium?

Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is not caused by a fungus.


What is the medical name of the Bubonic Plague?

Bubonic Plague is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis.


What is bacterium an example of?

Yersinia pestis, AKA, Bubonic Plague


The bubonic plague was carried by?

The carrier of this plague is the rats the carrier of the plague is actually fleas and ticks because they bite the rats and give them the plague. So the carriers of the plague are most rodents, ticks, and fleas.


What is one disease transmitted by fleas?

Bubonic plague


Which is worse the plague or bubonic plague?

Today, when people say the plague as in a disease, they generally mean the bubonic plague. However, there are three types of plague: - bubonic - the kind with the swollen lymph nodes called buboes, that's where the name comes from - pneumonic - this is transmitted by coughing and people usually die within 2 days of showing symptoms - septicemic, which is in your blood and causes tissue to die. Pneumonic is far more contageous and kills quicker than the other two, so that's arguably the worst. If you mean the Plague as in the big pandemic that wiped out 1/3 of Europe in the 1350s, it was a mixture of bubonic and pneumonic.


What was the most common form of the plague?

Plague was most commonly transmitted by fleas and rats.


The vector of transmission for Bubonic Plague is the?

Bubonic plague is usually transmitted by infected fleas. These fleas typically live on rodents, in particular rats.


How is Doctor Yersin connected to bubonic plague?

The name of the bacillus that causes Bubonic plague is Yersinnia pestis.


What is the scientific name for Bubonic Plague?

AnswerThe Black Death is believed to have been caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, and the disease is called bubonic plague. AnswerThe Black Plague was caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, which was formerly Pasteurella pestis. The disease vectors were rodents, especially rats, and fleas. The Black Death or Black Plague was a specific outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe during 1346 to 1351.


What insect can give you bubonic plague?

The Bubonic Plague was a disease carried by the flea, who spread the disease by infesting rats. When the rat died of Bubonic Plague, the flea would search for another host to feed on, namely humans.


What kind of bacteria is the bubonic plague?

bacterium Yersinia pestis (formerly known as Pasteurella pestis)