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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


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 kind of bacteria is the bubonic plague?

bacterium Yersinia pestis (formerly known as Pasteurella pestis)


How is the bacterium that causes bubonic plague transmitted?

It is transmitted by a bite of an infected flea that lives on a rat.


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.


Do people still die of the black plague?

No, we now know the bubonic plague was caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis that we have antibiotics to treat.


What is a yersinia?

A yersinia is a bacterium of the genus Yersinia, which is an agent of several diseases, most notably bubonic plague.


How do you use the word black death in a sentence?

Bubonic plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, and was commonly known as the black death or black plague.


What is difference between pneumonic and bubonic plague?

Bubonic and septicemic plague are two of the three types of plague. The main difference between the two is that the bubonic plague cause extreme infection and swelling of the lymph nodes while the septicemic plague cause the body's clotting mechanism to stop.


Can you prevent Bubonic Plague?

To be cured from the Bubonic Plague you can use antibiodics. In the previous bubonic plagues when it was a plague there was no cure.


Why were the 1300 a century of crisis?

The Bubonic Plague