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Sierra Jane Downing, a 7-year-old Colorado girl, just survived a battle with a deadly disease that is extremely rare these days, but once wiped out more than a third of medieval Europe: The bubonic plague, or Black Death.. The girl was saved by a quick-thinking doctor at Denver's Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.
Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague. The bacteria that causes the bubonic plague is called Yersinia pestis. This bacteria also causes the other two forms of plague: septicemic plague and pneumonic plague (see Types of Plague).ubonic plague is rarely spread from person to person. Yersinia pestis bacteria begin to multiply once they reach the lymph nodes. (The lymph or lymphatic system is a major component of your body's immune system.