It can also refer to one specific disease, Yersinia pestis. On top of that ... Once the swellings burst, people had a fever, vomited blood, and soon died. After the devastation of the first ...

Other symptoms include fever, vomiting, chills, seizures, vomiting blood, internal bleeding, and death. The presence of Yersinia pestis DNA in the mummy indicates that the disease had progressed ...