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What is bubonic plague? Cat blamed for infecting owner with deadly disease that killed millions
A cat in Oregon has been blamed for infecting its owner with bubonic plague, in a rare modern case of the infection being passed onto humans in the US. Oregon officials confirmed that the infected ...
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What is bubonic plague? What to know about the disease that popped up in Oregon
Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who probably got the disease from a sick pet cat. The infected resident and the person's close contacts have ...
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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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Is the Bubonic Plague Still Around?
Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...
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Bubonic Plague
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In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the World it Made
But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...
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Early pandemics: the plague
Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Over the following centuries, plague returned many times ...
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San Francisco’s Bubonic Plague Cover-up
Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National ...
Daily Nexus3d
Campbell Hall Plague spreads
Hot take: college is like preschool. College students must painfully relearn how to make friends and share their things. And, college students’ immune systems seem to have a major regression, becoming ...
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Bubonic Plague.
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bubonic plague
Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Reports of the infection—including one death this ...