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What You Might Have Missed in History Class: Black Death is Still Here and Closer Than You May Think

June 29, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

    In case you haven’t been in a history class in a while, let’s set a scene for you. The year is 1347 and

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What You Might Have Missed in History Class: Black Death is Still Here and Closer Than You May Think

June 29, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

    In case you haven’t been in a history class in a while, let’s set a scene for you. The year is 1347 and

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Outbreaks of 2015 – A Year in Review

December 29, 2015 Emily Cohn

‘Tis the season for the obligatory “best of” lists for 2015. We thought we’d take a look back at some of this year’s notable diseases

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Black Death is Back: Second Plague Death Reported in Colorado

August 16, 2015July 21, 2022 Emily Cohn

The Black Death is Back?   On August 5th, Colorado reported it’s second plague death in 2015 and the state has seen four human cases

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Dog Found to be Source of Colorado Plague Outbreak

May 11, 2015January 25, 2023 Emily Cohn

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that in July 2014 a Colorado man contracted plague from his dog [1]. Furthermore, three other persons

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Spotlight: Oh, You Dirty Rat!

January 9, 2014January 25, 2023 Katharine York

We’ve covered a lot of diseases over the past few years, but what we haven’t covered much of are the vectors that carry them. A

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Outbreak News

Madagascar’s Plague Outbreak

January 3, 2014January 25, 2023 Amy L. Sonricker Hansen

During the month of December, the island nation of Madagascar reported cases of both bubonic and pneumonic plague. Mandritsara, a remote village in northeast Madagascar,

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Bubonic Plague Presence in Kyrgyzstan

September 5, 2013January 25, 2023 Steven Purcell

A 15 year old boy died from bubonic plague in Kyrgyzstan last week. Purportedly, his was the first known case in the country for 30

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Officials Find Plague in California Squirrel

July 30, 2013January 25, 2023 Naomi Nkinsi

Table Mountain campgrounds at Angeles National Forest closed on July 24 after officials found plague bacteria in a squirrel in the area, according to a

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Research & Policy

From Poor to Rich: The Migration of the Plague in the United States

June 21, 2012January 25, 2023 Alex Ocampo

The plague, once a disease affecting mostly lower socioeconomic communities in the United States, has made a shift to middle and upper class neighborhoods over

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