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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
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An Oregon man caught the Bubonic plague. How cats could bring America’s Black Death
The “Black Death” is back, and this time it's being carried by a cat. Oregon recently confirmed its first case of bubonic plague in nearly eight years. State health officials believe a ...
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Is the Bubonic Plague Still Around?
The plague. Sounds like one for the history books, right? Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague ...
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...