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Plague patient in critical condition at Oregon hospital

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Chris Fink: dang! 06/15/2012 Highly Influential
Irina Tcherednichenko: Are some disease gone forever? May be not. "The man who has not been named but is in his 50s, is believed to have caught the disease that rampaged through Europe in the middle ages and is thought to have wiped out between a quarter and a third of the population. In modern times the disease is rare and treatable with antibiotics but can still… 06/15/2012
Rob Dowers: As far as I can tell, the hospital he's in is over in the eastern part of the state, but still. Yeesh. 06/15/2012 Influential
Angelia B: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/15/plague-patient-critical-condition-oregon 06/15/2012
Xabier Ostale: It can be treated with antibiotics... if it doesn't develop resistance. The disease is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which can develop into three kinds of plague including the bubonic plague, which swells lymph nodes across the body. The other two are septicaemic plague, which affects the bloodstream, and pneumonic plague, which… 06/15/2012 Influential
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