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"LONDON: Plague, the disease that devastated medieval Europe, is re-emerging worldwide and poses a growing but overlooked threat, researchers warned yesterday. While it has only killed about 200 people a year in the past 20 years, plague has appeared in new countries in recent decades and is now shifting into Africa, said ecologist Michael Begon, and fellow scientists at Britain's University of Liverpool. A bacterium called Yersinia pestis causes bubonic plague, known in medieval times as the Black Death, and the more dangerous pneumonic plague. "
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