Can anyone describe symptoms of the plague?
Show symptoms 2 to 6 days after getting plague. Symptoms include fever, chills, weakness, and swollen and painful lymph nodes. A few people get pneumonia. This progresses to very painful, usually swollen, and often hot-to-the touch lymph nodes. This may take a day or two after the other symptoms start. The bacteria can sperad throughout the bloodstream even in the lungs. The incubation period of pneumonic plague is 1 to 3 days and is characterized by development of an overwhelming pneumonia with high fever, cough, bloody sputum, and chills. For plague pneumonia patients, the death rate is over 50%.
