Bubonic plague can cause swelling of the lymph nodes. If untreated, it could spread to the blood and lungs. Other symptoms included fever, vomiting and chills. Physicians relied on treatments such ...

Initial symptoms — sudden fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea — are indistinguishable from other illnesses. As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings ...

Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit, you can get it, too. You can even get it from a rodent that a flea bites. Symptoms can start two to six days after being ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic ... no vaccine for plague in the U.S., the CDC said. People who develop symptoms of plague ...