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Wendy Orent holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. She is a leading freelance science journalist
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Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease (2004) 81 exemplaires
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Though humans have lived with Plague for centuries, we know surprisingly little about it. Only in the late nineteenth century that anyone saw the bacteria (Alexandre Yersin, hence the name of Yersinia pestis). It was only in the early twentieth century that fleas-as-carriers became a widely accepted theory. Even now, no one knows why some instances of plague are so much more virulant than others, or why some become pneumonic instead of bubonic. Some scientists still refuse to believe that Yersinia pestis was the cause of the Black Death. We have antibiotics to treat plague, but there are still no vaccines.… (plus d'informations)