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The Plague In Oregon Is Pretty Much The Same As The Medieval Version

A 15th-century Bible depicts a couple suffering from the blisters of the bubonic plague. The same bacterium that ravaged medieval Europe as the "black death" occasionally re-emerges. (Corbis)
A 15th-century Bible depicts a couple suffering from the blisters of the bubonic plague. The same bacterium that ravaged medieval Europe as the "black death" occasionally re-emerges. (Corbis)

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