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Pneumonic Plague Infections in Modern Times Show the Black Death Isn’t Dead


A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the bacteria that spurred the Black Death centuries ago continues to claim lives

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