Source: CDC Publich Health Image Library
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| The picture is of a plague patient and it is clear to see the axillary bubo and edema (the swolling in the ampit). Incubation takes about 2-6 days, after which symptoms of the plague appear including severe malaise, headache, shaking chills, fever, and pain and swelling, or adenopathy, in the affected regional lymph nodes, also known as buboes. | ||
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