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Giant plague grave discovered in Nuremberg could be the largest mass burial site EVER seen in Europe - with as many as 1,500 people buried there
The site in Nuremberg, Germany, contains the bodies of at least 1,000 people who died of the bubonic ... removing all the skeletons and studying the bones for traces of the plague bacterium ...
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
Photo: Rat Receiving Station set up as part of the War on Rats led by the U.S. Public Health Service. Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic ...