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Following news that a herdsman in China tested positive for the bubonic plague comes word that a squirrel in Colorado has contracted the disease. Officials from the town of Morrison in Jefferson ...

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Consul General Lee, at Panama, cabled the State Department to-day that there was one death from bubonic plague there on Saturday. Advertisement ...

Hanoi - The World Health Organisation said on Monday it was rushing gowns and masks to Vietnam to prevent further transmission of bird flu to humans, as it struggled to gauge the scope of infection ...

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RICHMOND, Calif. -- A disturbing mystery is unfolding in Richmond, California, where residents say birds are being killed at an alarming rate. "It's very traumatic," resident Maximilian Bolling said.