Pneumonic Plague Ready For A Comeback?

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readAug 3, 2009

Today in things that might kill you: “Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man died of pneumonic plague and 11 others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung infection, health authorities said.” Pneumonic plague, the story continues, can kill its victims “within 24 hours of infection.”

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