Colorado sees a case of the plague Last week, Colorado health officials confirmed a human case of the bubonic plague (the disease once known as “the Black Death,” which killed approximately 50 ...

It's a disease we associate with medieval times, when it was known as the "Black Death", but fears are growing that an outbreak of bubonic plague could be the next global pandemic. With that fear ...

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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From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year ... As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects ...

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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 ...

Even without antibiotic intervention, bubonic plague is fatal in less than half of cases. In contrast, pneumonic plague is almost invariably fatal and typically progresses from infection to death ...

In either case, death usually happened within three days. One of the biggest outbreaks of the bubonic plague was the Great Plague of 1665. This was the worst outbreak for over 300 years and ...

Since 1993, 122 people have gotten sick from the virus in Colorado – the second most number of cases of any U.S. state.

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