Novladex is the trade name for tamoxifen. In some cases, health care professionals may use the trade name Novladex when referring to the generic drug name tamoxifen. Drug type: Tamoxifen is a hormone therapy. (For more detail, see How this drug works section below).
Bubonic plague is a potentially fatal infection caused by the bacterium Yersina pestis. Bubonic plague is not usually spread directly from person to person. Small rodents, such as rats, mice, squirrels, and weasels, carry the infection. These animals have fleas that are infected with the plague bacteria.
In 1984, Graham Twigg suggested that the bubonic plague, carried by rats, could not have spread quickly enough, and proposed that the Black Death was a form of anthrax. Other historians have suggested that it was a kind of Ebola-virus, or a now-extinct plague germ.