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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1903: Bubonic Plague Suspected
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International Herald Tribune
09-11-2003
MARSEILLES: The facts which transpired yesterday [Sept. 10] with regard to an outbreak of bubonic plague at Marseilles gave definite form to the rumors which have been circulating during the last few days on this subject. The ''Presse'' of yesterday evening reproduc...
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Boy of seven has bubonic plague
The Independent - London
; A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy has been admitted to hospital with bubonic plague in a village in Kazakstan. Ninety-six people were also sent for testing. Bubonic plague is transmitted by fleas that infect rats. If transmitted to humans, the disease can kill in three days.
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L.A. has case of bubonic plague
Daily Breeze
; A woman was hospitalized earlier this month with bubonic plague, the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County in more than two decades, health officials said Tuesday. The woman, who was not identified, was admitted April 13 with a fever, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms. A blood test
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Pathogens and People: Bubonic plague still instills fear
Capital (Annapolis)
; Every now and then I run into bubonic plague. When I was in graduate school the guy in the lab next door was growing gallons of Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, for his thesis. Years later, in Colorado, I watched from behind the relative safety of gloves and respirator as my CDC colleagues
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Pestis redux: the initial years of the third bubonic plague pandemic, 1894-1901 *.
Journal of World History
; The very term bubonic plague evokes horror in the collective memories of Europe and the Islamic world. Alone among infectious diseases, this affliction is synonymous with the generic word plague ; that is, large-scale calamity. Over the centuries, Western writers from Giovanni Boccaccio through
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