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Avoiding Black Plague Today (The Atlantic, April 11 2014, extract)
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Avoiding Black Plague Today
by Iulia Filip
Even in areas of the world that still experience outbreaks, mortality rates from plague are estimated to be eight to 10 percent. The disease that caused the most lethal epidemics recorded in history and killed 60 percent of the people in medieval London and Florence is no longer on the most feared-killers list.
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Avoiding Black Plague Today
by Iulia Filip
Even in areas of the world that still experience outbreaks, mortality rates from plague are estimated to be eight to 10 percent. The disease that caused the most lethal epidemics recorded in history and killed 60 percent of the people in medieval London and Florence is no longer on the most feared-killers list.
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