Bubonic plague still exists in the wild. It just does not seem to infect us as badly as it once did. Apparently it had more to fo with the dying off of the type of rat (black) that it infested and the replacement of the black rat population by the Norwegian brown rat.
The Southwestern States still have occasional cases of it.
Emed on it:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/829233-overviewCDC on it:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00048352.htm
Edited by scafool (01/21/09 05:56 PM)
Edit Reason: grammar
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