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Essay Archive - The Bubonic Plague
The Bubonic Plague
The first symptoms of the bubonic plague are headache, vomiting, nausea,
aching joints and a feeling of ill health. The lymph nodes of the groin or
of the armpit or neck suddenly start to become swollen and painful. The
pulse and respiration rate of a bubonic plague victim is increased, and the
victim will become listless and exhausted. The buboes will swell until they
are approximately the size of a chicken egg. If a case is nonfatal than the
temperature will begin to fall in about five days, and approaches normal in
about two weeks, but in fatal cases death will p....
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