The_Bubonic_Plague

The Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague The bubonic plague is an infection in humans and several species of rodents. It is caused by Yersinia pestis which used to be known as Pasteurella. Yersinia pestis is a bacteria that is transmitted by fleas that have feed on the blood of infected humans and rodents. The plague bacteria, when ingested, multiply in the fleas digestive tract. It multiplies until it eventually obstructs the digestive tract. Then when the flea feeds next, it causes the fleas freshly ingested blood to be regurgitated into the flea bite. Then the circulatory system, of person with the regurgitated blood, carries the bacteria throughout the body The first signs of illness, in humans, appears quickly. Usually with inside a week. In a few short hours the victims body temperature rises to around 40 degrees celsius or 104 plague, bubonic, body, infected, humans, fleas, flea, blood, bacteria, the, yersinia, victim, tract, throughout, system, rodents, regurgitated, pestis, nodes, mental, lymph, ingested, ill, hours, first, few, digestive, degrees, become, withing, whole, while, week, way, vulnerable