swollen

Symptoms, such as swollen lips and throat and difficulty breathing, can happen very quickly.

More than 80% of plague cases in the U.S. have been in the bubonic form, from which patients will develop swollen, painful lymph nodes called buboes, according to the CDC.

Then the creek, swollen after a series of big storms in the 1980s, flooded the lower plain.

Apart from fever and joint pain, other symptoms include rash, headache, muscle pain and swollen joints.

Children gaze with sunken eyes and swollen bellies, their cries of hunger echoing into a silence broken only by the roar of bombs.