{"id":92002,"date":"2026-10-11T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92002"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:29:05","slug":"the-plague-isnt-history-where-it-still-exists-how-it-spreads-and-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92002","title":{"rendered":"The plague isn\u2019t history. Where it still exists, how it spreads and a cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/10\/40c6eea0-107b-47a8-9634-b6e8ba607948_0ceed533.jpg?itok=kDI4mfs6&amp;v=1791647453\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To most, the plague is an ancient nightmare, a scourge that wiped out tens of millions in medieval Europe and killed more than 20,000 people in colonial Hong Kong between 1894 and 1929.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">A <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">recent death<\/span> at a plague research facility in Siberia is a stark reminder that the bacterium that causes it, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Yersinia pestis<\/em>, was never eradicated. While modern medicine has transformed the former \u201cBlack Death\u201d into an easily treatable bacterial infection, the disease continues to circulate quietly across the globe, claiming lives whenever humans cross paths with infected wildlife.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since the 1990s, most human cases have been reported in Africa, especially Congo and Madagascar, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There are an average of about five human cases per year in the United States, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, mostly in rural areas of the American West.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3370337\/plague-isnt-history-where-it-still-exists-how-it-spreads-and-cure?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To most, the plague is an ancient nightmare, a scourge that wiped out tens of millions in medieval Europe and killed more than 20,000 people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[28349,4257,2284,605,22003,19255],"class_list":["post-92002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-cure","tag-exists","tag-history","tag-isnt","tag-plague","tag-spreads","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}