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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Elsewhere, typhus carried off many who had been weakened by starvation; in Chesterfield the pestilence was almost certainly bubonic plague .
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Global incidences of cholera, tuberculosis, diphtheria and bubonic plague have all increased significantly in the last five years.
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Later on, my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague .
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Monservate was demolished after an outbreak of bubonic plague , an unusual fate for a station.
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The writer's po-faced style occasionally irritates: do people really need reminding that cases of bubonic plague should be treated immediately?
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Though relatively healthy animals, state health officials warn that they are notoriously susceptible to bubonic plague .
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Thus, there seems little doubt that it was bubonic plague which struck Chesterfield in 1586-87.
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You know, the ones about the bubonic plague and all that.