Show SCIENCE STILL TRYING TR YING plague P I 1 L A g 1 ala N e struck years ago AWU owe 0 it was years ago in m 1348 that the black D ath swept ravenously through europe killing about 25 persons to take its place as one of the greatest calamities of all fame time historians estimated that by the end of the century the black death bubonic plague had killed one fourth of europe s entire population in china another 13 died in an outbreak of the disease at about the same time even to this day the seeds of bu bonic plague are scattered through out the world since 1898 it is esti mated that more than 12 per sons have died of it in india authorities don t know where or when the plague first began but some say that epidemic disease mentioned in the bible can be con true plague and traced through history to 1320 B C it Is bel beloved eved to have started in lower egypt and in a few centuries spread to the ends of the inhabit able world the black rat of asia which car nes ries bubonic plague probably was introduced into europe by returning crusaders in the century they would have multiplied sufficiently to be noticed in europe within a cen tury and history books say they ap feared at that time it wasn gasn t until around 1900 that it was definitely established that the black rat harbors the disease the rat is bitten by a flea the flea then bites a man and xan aa the J jiff plague to him in one form the disease even be between humans according to the U S health erv ice plague among rodents exists in m many places in the world today in eluding a great part of this country outbreaks have occurred among hu man beings on the west coast and rodent plague has been reported as far inland as kansas however bials do not fear any outbreak of the black death in the united states medical scientists recently have discovered that the sulfa drugs are valuable in treatment and believe that the new drug streptomycin may prove so also new and more powerful flea and rat killers killer include ing and the poison R 1080 are proving extremely effective |