Scientific American·2026-10-27 18:00· 8 d agoFeaturedRecommendation84.40

Why we’ll never have another Black Death

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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

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