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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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The bubonic plague is still around in 2024. How is that possible?
The bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people in Europe in the 14th century — gaining the grim label the Black Death. In 2024, a handful of cases arise each year in the United States ...
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In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the World it Made
The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes ...
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Plague reached Europe by Stone Age
including the infamous Black Death in the 14th Century, which is estimated to have killed between 30% and 60% of Europe's population. Analysis of the ancient plague DNA shows that Y. pestis ...
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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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Deadly Diseases
In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and was transported back to Europe by traders. The disease struck swiftly there. The Italian writer Boccaccio said that its victims "ate lunch with ...
The Scientist2y
Black Death Likely Originated in Central Asia
This made Slavin wonder whether the site might help settle a long debate about the origins of the Black Death pandemic that arrived in Europe around 1347 CE. Knowing he’d have little chance of finding ...
The New York Times6y
The Black Death.
Surgeon General George M. Sternberg in the January Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for ...
The Scientist4y
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 ...
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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 ...