Word: pasteurella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their catches in tight-woven bags to trucks outfitted as laboratories, parked in the shadows of mountains. They combed the rodents for fleas, then slit the carcasses to remove certain viscera and tissues. In many viscera the bacteriologists found what they feared would be there: the oval bacteria of Pasteurella pestis-the plague, the Black Death...
...plane circled for an hour. It dropped no bombs. But on the ground near the two main gates to the city, scattered grains of rice and shreds of cotton cloth were later found. The police destroyed them, but saved some samples for testing. The samples were full of Pasteurella pestis, the short oval bacillus of bubonic plague...
...plague-the same Black Death that swept over Europe in the 14th Century, killing a fourth of the population. This case occurred in California last month. The boy caught the disease from fleas which carried the plague bacilli (Pasteurella pestis) from sick squirrels. No effective treatment for plague is known, and the boy died in three days...