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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.
Plagues: Pneumonic, Bubonic, and Septicemic. The plague is a bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis, which generally effects wild rodents, like rats. Bubonic infection, which includes a rapid onset of fever, painful and swollen lymph glands (buboes).