Bubonic Plague

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Bubonic Plague

Introduction

Bubonic plague has emerged and spread rapidly across towns , cities , and rural areas in several worldwide epidemics through the whole of history Probably the earliest mention of bubonic plague is the Old Testament record in the First Book of Samuel giving an account of swellings and rodents that made attack on the Philistines (Ackroyd 55-57 . The bubonic plague later hit the falling...