Sentences with phrase «like bubonic»
«Secondly it shows that this was, would be a viable route for the spread of those other infectious diseases like Bubonic plague and leprosy and anthrax that people had previously suggested might have been spread between East Asia and Europe along the Silk Road.
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At Senior Prom a few months ago he got that sad last - minute phone call from Edna Pimple, saying she had come down with a bad case of bubonic plague and could not go with him like her mother pushed her into.
Bd outbreaks make bubonic plague look like a slight cough,» he said.
However, it is well known that ectoparasites transmit disease, says the Wisconsin epidemiologist, noting that things like ticks and fleas harbor important pathogens like typhus, bubonic plague, Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
But researchers now realize that it probably wasn't until the end of the Bronze Age that the bacteria evolved from a less virulent species that may have spread more like the flu, tuberculosis, or AIDS than the bubonic plague, which is transmitted through flea bites to the skin.
According to legend, thieves during the bubonic plague survived by making an herbal vinegar with herbs like rosemary, thyme and lavender.
Protecting your pets not only keeps them healthier and happier, it reduces the chances that you will be exposed to diseases like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Lyme disease and Bubonic plague.
As the BBC reported in May, scientists suspect smallpox and the bubonic plague are trapped in Siberian ice, too — an abridged history of devastating human sickness, left out like egg salad in the Arctic sun.