Diets of the World: The Japanese Diet. From the WebMD Archives. The Japanese diet is the iPod of food, says Naomi Moriyama, co-author of Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen, it concentrates the magnificent energy of food into a compact and pleasurable size..
Bubonic plague is one of three types of bacterial infection caused by Yersinia pestis. Three to seven days after exposure to the bacteria flu like symptoms develop. This includes fever, headaches, and vomiting.Swollen and painful lymph nodes occur in the area closest to where the bacteria entered the skin.n the bubonic form of plague, the bacteria enter through the skin through a flea bite and travels via the lymphatics to a lymph node, causing it to swell.
Scanning electron micrograph of Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague, on proventricular spines of a Xenopsylla cheopis flea. NIAID. Yersinia pestis (sometimes spelled Yersina) is the name of the bacteria that causes the bubonic plague.. pestis is primarily the cause of disease in a wide variety of rodents, including marmots, ground squirrels, gerbils, and prairie dogs, and, most famously, rats, specifically the black rat (Rattus rattus) (and almost certainly not the brown rat (R. norvegicus), despite what you might have heard).