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#History
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The Black Death and modern plague: what has changed?
The bacterium remains, but diagnosis, antibiotics, surveillance and living conditions make the modern risk landscape fundamentally different.
The 1910–1911 Manchurian plague and Wu Lien-teh
A fast-moving pneumonic plague epidemic transformed outbreak control in northeast China and helped shape modern public health.
Plague in the United States: why the West matters
How plague moved from port-city rats into western wildlife and why modern US cases are usually rural and sporadic.