Anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 people get the plague every year, the World Health Organization reports. But that estimate doesn't account for unreported cases. An average of seven Americans get the plague every year, according to the CDC.
The same scourge that caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages sickened two people in China with pneumonic plague this month. In May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of an infected rodent.But there are almost certainly more than four cases in the world. Anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 people get the plague every year, the World Health Organization reported. But that total is likely too modest an estimate, since it doesn't account for unreported cases.
Why is bubonic plague still a thing? According to a 2016 map, the possibility of plague exists on almost every continent, especially the western US, parts of Brazil, scattered areas in southeast Africa and large swaths of China, India and the Middle East.But unless you live among a great deal of wild, disease-carrying rodents, your odds of infection in the US are slim. How do you get the plague? That depends on the type.
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