Why The Black Plague Isn't Over
Why The Black Plague Isn't Over with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science, disease, bacteria, plague, pandemic, black death, justinian, eradication, eradicate, bubonic, epidemiology, reservoir
The black plague is one of the deadliest diseases humans have ever faced; it killed as many as 50 million people – including about a third of the population of Europe – in the 14th century alone, in an outbreak known as the Black Death. In modern days, though, you hardly ever hear about people getting the plague, which might make you think we've wiped it out. But the black plague is still around and still infecting people – and we aren't even trying to eradicate it.
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- Bubonic plague: a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis
- Reservoir: a living host in which a pathogen can live, grow, and multiply, and can serve as a source for disease
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