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Human case of plague confirmed in Colorado

Wednesday July 10, 2024. 01:26 AM , from BoingBoing
A human has been confirmed to be infected with plague, aka the Black Death, in Pueblo County, Colorado. The infectious disease, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, killed millions of people across Europe during the Middle Ages. While it spreads among wild rodents and other animals in the western United States and parts of Africa and Asia, it's quite rare these days for a human to catch it. — Read the rest
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