Searching For a Vaccine For the Plague
The scourge of the Middle Ages survives
by Lydia Zuraw
Jan 06, 2017
3 minutes
This story from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is published exclusively at Newsweek.
The plague is best known for wiping out as much as a third of Europe’s population during the Black Death pandemic of the 14th century, but it’s not entirely a thing of the past. It’s enough of a present-day threat — either as a potential bioterrorism weapon or because some strains are now antibiotic resistant — that scientists are trying to develop a
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