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Any severe epidemic; when there is no known treatment or cure. It is from the Latin plaga, which means "blow". It was often believed a plague was a blow administered by a god.
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Acute, infectious disease with a high mortality rate; caused by Yersinia pestis.
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While the word plague is used for any widespread, highly infectious disease, it specifically refers to the bubonic plague, a disease carried by rats and spread by fleas. It killed a third of the people in medieval Europe. It was nicknamed the Black Death because its victims developed black sores on their skin.
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A serious infectious disease spread to humans by fleas from rats and mice
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| plague m. |
meningitis occurring as a rare complication of bubonic plague as a result of hematogenous spread of the infection from a bubo to involve the meninges, or less often as a primary infection without antecedent bubo formation. Called also meningeal plague.
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