5 sentences with 'bubonic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bubonic and other words derived from it.
• « The most devastating was the famous "Black Death". It came in two forms: bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. »
• « Historians still debate what disease or diseases the Black Death consisted of (identifiable with contemporary medical knowledge), but the prevailing theory is that it was the bubonic plague. »
• « In turn, many victims of the bubonic plague developed the "pneumonic" form of the disease, which was spread by coughing, making it incredibly virulent and lethal (around 90% of those who developed pneumonic plague died). »
• « The theory that the Black Death was bubonic plague runs into the problem that modern outbreaks of bubonic plague do not seem to travel as fast as the Black Death did, although that almost certainly has a lot to do with the much more effective sanitation and treatment available in the modern era compared to the medieval Black Death scenario. »
• « However, social and economic devastation came in the 1340s, when Genoese merchants returning from the Black Sea inadvertently brought back a highly contagious rat-borne disease known as the bubonic plague. »