Bubonic Plague Outbreak

A Small Outbreak of a Big Death The Bubonic Plague captured its first victims as it swept throughout Europe and part of Asia in the fourteenth century. Just when scientists and doctors think it has disappeared, it strikes but this time with less venom. In October of 2015, the Bubonic Plague infects approximately fifteen people, four of them being fatal. These October deaths are nothing compared to 1347 when this first broke out, and it slightly less extreme than the seventeen cases that were diagnosed in 2007. However, the range and states that were affected were greatly upped in 2015, many sources pointing to traveling where this disease is more common, specifically the Western United States. While there was no one reason for these cases