Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National, local, and even neighborhood newspapers jump on the story. But weirdly ...

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Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native ... 10 to 15 of them in the western United States. The plague bacterium is carried to ...