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From the Archives - Historical Impact of the Plague

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Is There a History of Plague?

A lot of people think of plague as a historical phenomenon, not existing in the the current world. But that's really not true. We have cases of plague all the time. Even in the united states. Every year or two, we'll see cases of plague. Madagascar has a decent amount of outbreaks of plague. Peru has some plague thatat sweeps through there every once in a while. There are anti biotics now that really help with the treatment of it - ntmisin and a flora quinalone. If you give the people those anti biotics, the chances of them dying drop to around ten percent. And again, thinking historically, the people wouldn't have had habe

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