Novladex is the trade name for tamoxifen. In some cases, health care professionals may use the trade name Novladex when referring to the generic drug name tamoxifen. Drug type: Tamoxifen is a hormone therapy. (For more detail, see How this drug works section below).
Bubonic plague is a potentially fatal infection caused by the bacterium Yersina pestis. Bubonic plague is not usually spread directly from person to person. Small rodents, such as rats, mice, squirrels, and weasels, carry the infection. These animals have fleas that are infected with the plague bacteria.
Yersinia pestis: The bacteria that causes the bubonic plague which in the year 541 (as the Black Death) and later in the Middle Ages decimated Europe.The effects of the plague are described in the nursery rhyme We all fall down... pestis mainly infects rats and other rodents which are the prime reservoir for the bacteria. Fleas are the prime vectors carrying the bacteria from one species to another. They bite rodents infected with Y. pestis, then they bite people and so transmit the disease to them.