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Bubonic Plague

Couple Gets The Bubonic Plague, Husband Slips Into Coma For Nearly 90 Days

www.newser.com | Posted 03.25.2013 | Weird News
Read More: Plague-Infected Fleas, New York City Bubonic Plague, Video, Gangrene, Amputation, Black Death, New York City, Bubonic Plague, Weird News News

On a trip to Manhattan, New Mexico couple Lucinda Marker and John Tull fell ill with what turned out to be the bubonic plague. In what was the first c...

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The Week My Marriage Suffered A Bilateral Meltdown

Helene Cohen Bludman | Posted 05.09.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Bubonic Plague, Marriage, Florida, Sickness, Flu, Travel, Relationships, Love Post50, Fifty News
Helene Cohen Bludman

This situation, a bilateral meltdown, happened just once in our married life. It was while we were on vacation.

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Squirrel Tests Positive For Bubonic Plague Exposure In California

The Huffington Post | Cavan Sieczkowski | Posted 10.10.2012 | Green
Read More: Video, Squirrel Bubonic Plague, Squirrel California Bubonic Plague, California Squirrel Plague, California Squirrel Bubonic Plague, Squirrel Plague, Plague, Bubonic Plague, Plague Cases, Squirrel California Plague, Green News

A squirrel captured in Southern California has tested positive for exposure to fleas infected with the bacteria that can cause plague. The plague-e...

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7-Year-Old Recovering From Bubonic Plague

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 11.05.2012 | Denver
Read More: Video, Denver News, Child Bubonic Plague, Denver Children's Hospital, Child-Illness, Colorado Bubonic Plague, Sierra Jane Downing, Bubonic Plague, Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, Denver News

DENVER — The parents of 7-year-old Sierra Jane Downing thought she had the flu when she felt sick days after camping in southwest Colorado. It ...

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Timothy Stenovec

Plague Leaves Man In Critical Condition

HuffingtonPost.com | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 06.15.2012 | Green
Read More: Oregon News, Cdc, Yersinia Pestis, Emilio DeBess, Oregan Man Plague, Crook County Department of Public Health, Oregon Plague, Crook County, Black Death, Plague, Bubonic Plague, Green News

An Oregon man is in critical condition after being infected with the plague, the Oregonian reports. The man was bitten by a cat on Saturday, June 2...

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Re-understanding Violence as We Had to Re-Understand Plague..To Cure It

Gary Slutkin | Posted 06.19.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Baltimore, Mit, Violence, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Ceasefire, The Project on Justice in Times of Transition, Bubonic Plague, Gun Violence, Neuroscience, John Hopkins University, Chicago, Epidemic, Epidemiology, The Plague, Conflict Resolution, Saxelab, Chicago News
Gary Slutkin

Human history is filled with tragic blunders that fail to put their finger on the problem, and actually compose a "solution" that has no value. This is where we are today, relying on prisons as solutions to reducing the epidemics of violence.

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5 Old-Time Diseases Still Around Today

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 12.18.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Whooping Cough, Gout, Measles, Old Time Diseases, Scarlet Fever, Bubonic Plague, Healthy Living News

The bubonic plague. Scarlet fever. Polio. Diseases of the past, and no longer on this Earth, right? Wrong. Many old-time diseases are still pr...

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How Black Death Kept Its Genes But Lost Its Killing Power

| Posted 12.12.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Plague Dna, Video, Black Death Genes, Bubonic Plague Genes, Bubonic Plague Dna, Black Plague Dna, Black Death, Bubonic Plague, Healthy Living News

By Katherine Harmon (Click here for the original article) In five years, Black Death wiped out an estimated 30 to 50 percent of Europe's populatio...

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Black Plague Headed Our Way?

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 08.14.2011 | Green
Read More: Plague and Wet, Health, Plague Climate Change, Climate Change, More Plague From Climate Change, More Plague, Wet Plague, Plague, Bubonic Plague, Green News

It seems the wetter things are the more plague there will be. A new study, conducted by Chinese and Norwegian scientists, seems to suggest a connec...

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Oregon Cat Recovering From Bubonic Plague

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.15.2011 | Weird News
Read More: Cats, Cdc, Black Death, Disease, Bubonic Plague, Fleas, Oregon, Weird News News

An Oregon cat is recovering from the bubonic plague, central Oregon's KOHD reports. Emilio DeBess, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., an Oregon Public Health Divi...

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World's Infectious Disease Outbreaks (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Lyme Disease, Bubonic Plague, Swine Flu, Haiti Quake, Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, Haiti, Infectious Diseases, Health, Disease, Slidepollajax, Cholera, Haiti Earthquake, Medicine, World News

Infecting over 3,000 people and killing at least 250, a cholera outbreak is currently sweeping across Haiti, bringing a new wave of tragedy to a natio...

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Peru Plague Outbreak Kills 1, Infects At Least 31

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lima, Plague Outbreak, Health Ministry, Peru, Peru Plague, Chicama Beach, Bubonic Plague, World News

LIMA, Peru — Peru's health minister says an outbreak of plague has killed a 14-year-old boy and infected at least 31 people in a northern coasta...

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A Level-4 Biolab Grows in Boston: Pathogens Welcome

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Atmosphere of Fear, Ebola, Level-4 BioSafety Lab, Bubonic Plague, Boston, Anthrax, Bio-Weapons, Pandemics, Pathogens, Boston University, Biological Research, Military, National Institute of Health, National Research Council, Disease, Bacteria, Viruses, Military-Industrial Complex, Smallpox, Biolab, Politics News
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.

We are in the grips of a military-industrial complex for whom projects such as the Boston Biolab are as much meat and potatoes as any multi-billion dollar weapon system, no matter how dubious the need.

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Which is Safer: The Drive to the Airport or the Flight?

Keith Thomson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cars, Airplanes, Plane Crash, Traffic Accidents, Bubonic Plague, Falling Down, Buffalo Plane Crash, Healthy Living News
Keith Thomson

The drive-to-the-airport axiom needs a re-write. Here's a suggestion -- you're more likely to be killed on the drive to the airport than on a flight on an airline with a good safety record.

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Bangladesh's Rats Spark Fears Of Bubonic Plague Outbreak

BBC NEWS | By Mark Dummett | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Chittagong Hill Tracts, United Nations Development Programme, Burma, Bubonic Plague, Rats Carry Plague, Rat Infestation, South Asia, India, Asia, Bangladesh, Bamboo Forests, World News

Scientists have warned of the possibility of an outbreak of bubonic plague in south-east Bangladesh because of the growing population of rats....

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