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This image depicts a male plague patient lying in a hospital bed revealing his injuries after having been infected with the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Note the acral gangrene of both his hands, as well as the gangrenous changes on his face involving the tip of his nose and lower lip. The blackened coloration of the gangrenous tissues gave rise to the moniker, black death, to this horrific bacterial infection.
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