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The site of the bubo varies,
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according to the location of the infective bite.
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If a flea bites the legs,
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the bubo is usually in the groin, and would look like that.
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If the fleas instead were to bite the arms,
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the bubo would appear in the armpit or on the neck,
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and there would be symptoms--
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would look like this, or like that.
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In any case, Daniel Defoe imagined, and he writes in our book,
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that the agony was so violent from the bubo
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that victims hurled themselves from roofs,
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or into the Thames to escape it.