plague victim
Black Death sufferer
A plague victim is someone afflicted by a plague—historically, a person suffering from bubonic plague or similar epidemic disease.
The term appears in historical accounts of the Black Death and other outbreaks: Mass graves held thousands of plague victims.
More broadly, it can describe anyone struck by any devastating epidemic or, figuratively, by widespread calamity.
- suffererOne who endures hardship
- infectedInvaded by pathogens
- corpseDeceased human body
- pustulesPus-filled skin lesions
- boilsHeats to bubbling
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plague victimdisease carrier
Transmitter of pathogens
Typhoid Mary · plague doctor · patient zero · vector · rat
plague victimplague doctor
Epidemic-treating masked physician
healer · physician · caregiver · nurse · apothecary
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