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Bubonic plague
Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. Primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death and devastation it brought...
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1349
8.24.1349
Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1894
8.25.1894
Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in ''The Lancet''.
1907
5.27.1907
Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.