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8/10    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=8250776&page=1
        Black Death, back in .cn
        \_ http://csua.org/u/osf another perspective
        \- hardly a surprise.
        \_ that photo is pretty funny
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wiped out, millions of people in Europe in the fourteenth century. While this form of the disease, known as pneumonic plague, spreads from human to human, without needing rats or fleas for transmission, it does not present the grave threat to humans that it did in medieval times. Origins of Cold, Flu Phrases "In this form, the organism gets in the lung -- that allows it to be transmitted by coughing," explained Philip Alcabes, associate professor in the program in urban public health at Hunter College's School of Health Sciences and author of Dread: How Fear And Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics From The Black Death To Avian Flu. "The problem with that is that it allows it to be transmitted directly from person to person." Fleas will spread the bubonic plague when they bite rats, injecting the bacteria into the animal's bloodstream, but will bite humans when a rat is not available. "If it's in the person's bloodstream, that's called bacteremia. That goes to the lungs, and it could potentially seed the lung tissue, and the bacteria could set up shop there," said Dr. Howard Markel, professor of the history of medicine and of pediatrics and communicable diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, who noted that the disease could also become pneumonic if aerosolized bacteria are inhaled. "Pneumonic is the kind where you really get scared," he said. While China quickly moved to quarantine the village, Markel and Alcabes questioned the appropriateness of that response.
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