Why we’ll never have another Black Death

The death of a worker at a Russian plague lab was alarming, but the disease is extremely unlikely to become a worldwide problem as it has in the past

俄羅斯鼠疫實驗室一名技術員死亡引發關注，但專家認為現代鼠疫可治愈、難以釀成大流行。文章回顧鼠疫三次大流行史，說明抗生素、滅鼠與隔離如何壓低風險，並指出病菌在嚙齒動物間的隱匿循環仍是未解之謎。