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In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became known as the "Black Death." But in modern times, bubonic plague is rare affecting ...

The bubonic plague is a disease with a centuries-long history that persists to this day. Oregon recently reported ... carried by prairie dogs. Luckily, modern antibiotics can fight Yersinia ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague ... 11 stowaways were found -- the next day two were missing. Their bodies were later found ...

Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed ... they uncovered the plague’s origins – uncovering skeletons buried in modern-day Kyrgyzstan that had been infected by the ...

Bubonic plague is most commonly associated with the Middle Ages when the Black Death wiped out as many as 200 million people and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.