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It attacks tissues, causing blood vessels to hemorrhage,
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and giving rise to purpurous, subcutaneous spots,
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the so-called tokens of plague.
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Another bit of jargon to remember.
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The plague is associated with tokens and these--
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let's have a look at-- which look like this.
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They gain their name
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because they were thought by many to be the signs,
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that is the tokens, of God's anger,
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the anger that led him to smite his people with the plague.
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Now the toxin initiates the septic phase of this disease,
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causing rapid degeneration of the muscles of the heart,