Plagues of our past
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Is Plague a Virus?
Plague is a bacterial disease caused by the bacterium ercenia pestus. The key to plague seems to be that it is spread by by fleas. It survives permanently in populations of wild burrowing rodents like marmots and gerboas and gerbals. And its still is still mysterious in certain i think there's a lot we don't really fully understand about plague and its history. But but we benefit from a lot of new knowledge about this this pathageand so on.
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