The Plague is the Bubonic Plague. Generally well known and accepted term for it.

If only they’d included a definition for the ignorant right in the same article:

“Plague occurs in three forms, bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic, depending on whether the infection hits the lymph nodes, bloodstream or lungs. Most US cases are bubonic, typically spread via flea bites from infected rodents.”

Yersinia pestis.

Black Death.

Comes in 3 flavors: Bubonic, Septicemic, Pneumonic.

THE PLAGUE

(Editing to add, because I checked, NOT what killed Gene Hackman and his wife, that was another rodent sickness, hantavirus.)