Translation for 'plague' from English to Bulgarian

plague {noun}

чума {ж}мед.

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cattle plague {noun}

чума {ж} пo рогат добитъкагр.вет.мед.зоол.

• Epizootics of the plague occur in tarbagan marmots in northeastern China and Mongolia, such as the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911.
• The disease is generally believed to have been bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium "Yersinia pestis", transmitted via a rat vector.
• Like most places in Europe, Baston suffered from the plague. Some Baston plague victims are shown in burial lists. A possible plague burial was uncovered during the building of a corn dryer.
• Some studies have contested the hypothesis that the plague was responsible for the Neolithic decline.
• Cats are known to transmit plague. Plague can take three forms: bubonic plague, primary septicemic plague, and primary pneumonic plague.

• The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean from 14th through 17th centuries.
• Septicemic plague is one of the three forms of plague, and is caused by "Yersinia pestis", a gram-negative species of bacterium.