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Archive Home > 2011 > June > 10 > Cat with bubonic plague on the mend

Cat with bubonic plague on the mend

By Scott Hammers / The Bulletin
June 10, 2011

A Prineville cat infected with bubonic plague is on the mend, health officials said Thursday.

A bacterial infection spread though the bite of an infected flea, the bubonic plague was the cause of the Black Death, the pandemic that killed roughly half the European population in the 14th century.....

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