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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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Bubonic Plague Kills New Mexico Man. Here's What To Know About The 'Black Death'
What was the Black Death? Bubonic plague killed millions of people in Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages, when it was called the Black Death, according to History.com. It became known as the ...
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Is the Bubonic Plague Still Around?
The plague. Sounds like one for the history books, right? Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague ...
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...
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Deadly Diseases
As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...