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Susan Scutti works as a reporter for Medical Daily and contributes on occasion to Newsweek magazine. She also writes novels. Her stories, poems, and reviews have been published in The Christian Science Monitor, New York Quarterly, Philadelphia Review of Books, Sensitive Skin, and other journals and anthologies. She graduated from Yale, later earned a Master's from CUNY. Generally, she prefers dogs to cats.

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Plague is among the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. Cases still happen today

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By Susan Scutti Verified, Katie Hunt Verified
| WLKY-TV (Louisville, KY) Verified
Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. Video above: How did people survive the black plague? While extremely rare, the disease is still around today, with a man in New Mexico dying of plague in March after being hospitalized for the disease and a person in Oregon being diagnosed with bubonic plague in February after likely being infected by their pet cat.
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Plague is among the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. Cases still happen today

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By Susan Scutti Verified, Katie Hunt Verified
| WRCB-TV (Chattanooga, TN) Verified
Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. It’s transmitted by fleas that live on rodents. Symptoms usually appear within one to seven days after infection and include painful, swollen lymph nodes, called bubos, in the groin, armpit or neck areas as well as fever, chills and coughing. How do you get the plague? Plague affects humans and other mammals.
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Plague is among the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. Cases still happen today

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By Susan Scutti Verified, Katie Hunt Verified
| NewsBreak
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