In 1940 and 1941, the Chinese cities of Ningbo and Changde were victimized by the Japanese using bacteriologic warfare causing this disease.
In 1940 and 1941, the Chinese cities of Ningbo and Changde were victimized by the Japanese using bacteriologic warfare causing this disease. Infected corpses were catapulted over walls in the analogous version of bacteriologic warfare in Europe almost 600 years earlier. Without antibiotics, two thirds of infected patients may develop fever and swollen lymph glands, which can enlarge with a very dark coloration of the skin. For ten points, name this disease caused by bacteria from the genus Yersinia which is spread by rat fleas that decimated 30% of Europe's population in the 14th century; its name derives from the characteristic buboes.
In 1940 and 1941, the Chinese cities of Ningbo and Changde were victimized by the Japanese using bacteriologic warfare causing this disease.
{Bubonic plague} or The {Black Death} or {Plague}