AQA GCSE History · 8145
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Revise: Public Health in the Middle AgesBubonic plague produced painful swellings called buboes, often in the armpits or groin. Modern knowledge identifies infected fleas, including those carried by rats, as a route of transmission. Pneumonic plague affected the lungs and could spread between people through coughing and infectious droplets.
- Revise: Crisis
A bacterial disease which commonly causes fever and swollen lymph nodes, called buboes; it can be transmitted through bites from infected fleas.