Plague (disease)

specific contagious and frequently fatal human disease caused by Yersinia pestis

human and animal disease

species of bacteria, cause of plague

French novel by Albert Camus

Japanese bacteriologist, immunologist

Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist

1950 film by Elia Kazan

plague that results in infection located in lung, which results from direct inhalation of the bacillus and has symptom fever, has symptom chills, has symptom cough and has symptom difficulty breathing

pneumonic plague outbreak in 1910–1911

human disease

vaccine used against Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis as historically significant pandemics; perplexingly high fatalities.

French biologist (1858–1947)