Show SCIENCE STILL plague a D agave struck yeats years ago it was years ago in 1348 that the black D drath ath swept ravenously through europe killing about persons per sors to take its place as one of the greatest calamities of all time historians estimated that by the end of the century the black de death 1 ath bubonic plague had killed one fourth of Eu ropes entire population in china another died to in an outbreak ol of the disease at about the same time even to this day the seeds of bubonic plague are scattered throughout the world since 1888 1898 it Is estimated e astl that more than 12 ODO persons have died of it in india authorities dont know where or when the plague first began but some say that epidemic disease mentioned in the bible can be considered true plague and traced through history to 1320 13 C it Is believed to have started in lower egypt and in a few centuries spread to tb the ends of the inhabitable world the black rat of 0 asia which carries bubonic plague probably wa was 3 introduced into europe by returning c crusaders ru s to in the cen century tuy they would have multiplied sufficiently to bi be riot noticed iced in europe within a century and history books say they appeared at that time it until around 1900 that it was definitely established that the black rat harbors the disease the rat Is bitten by a bleb the flea bea thin then bites a man and Ix transmits ansmits the plague to him in one form the disease even may be communicated between humans according to the U S health service plague among rodents exists in many places in the world today including a great part of this boltry country outbreaks have occurred among human beings on an the west coast and an d rodent plague has been reported as tar far inland as kansas however officials do not tear fear aay any outbreak of the black death to 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 bea and rat killers including lud DDT and the poison R 1080 are proving extremely effective |