A new study suggests that climate change is increasing the risk of humans contracting the plague. But the risk factors identified, even if the study is right, seem entirely manageable.
From The LA Times By David K. Randall May 16, 2019 | 3:15 AM Bubonic plague bacteria taken from a patient in 2003. (Center for Disease Control / AFP / Getty Images) The steamship caused the last global outbreak of bubonic...
Almost seven centuries after the Black Death, the plague is still out in force. This summer, there have been six confirmed infections by Yersinia pestis, the scientific name for the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague....
Almost seven centuries after the Black Death, the plague is still out in force. This summer, there have been six confirmed infections by Yersinia pestis, the scientific name for the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague....
Almost seven centuries after the Black Death, the plague is still out in force. This summer, there have been six confirmed infections by Yersinia pestis, the scientific name for the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague....
Last week a man in Yumen, China died of the bubonic plague prompting the country to seal off an entire city in order to stop the spread of the devastating disease...
Photo via Shutterstock You might think that the bubonic plague is so 14th Century, but a squirrel recently found dead in Los Angeles County begs to differ...
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