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Plague    See images

Overview | Symptoms | Treatment | Prevention

Alternative names:

Bubonic plague; Pneumonic plague; Septicemic plague

Symptoms

BUBONIC PLAGUE

  • Sudden onset of high fever
  • Chills
  • General discomfort, uneasiness, or ill feeling (malaise)
  • Muscular pains
  • Severe headache
  • Smooth, oval, reddened, painful swellings of swollen lymph glands called buboes in the groin, armpits, neck, or elsewhere in the body. Pain may occur in the area before the swelling; the most common area is in the groin
  • Seizures
PNEUMONIC PLAGUE

SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE

Signs and Tests

These tests may indicate a plague infection:

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