
Fleas in Flagstaff were found to have the plague.(Photo: CDC/Janice Carr)
Fleas in Flagstaff were found to have the plague.(Photo: CDC/Janice Carr)
The authorities can use insecticide to try to halt outbreaks of the plague.
Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, China’s Margaret Chan and Assistant Director General for Health Security Keiji Fukuda of the US, right, share a word during a press conference after an emergency meeting at the headquarters of the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)
Medical staff take a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient at the government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, 10 July, 2014.
The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus is seen in an undated transmission electron micrograph from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). REUTERS/National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Handout via Reuters
Health workers carry the body of an Ebola victim in Sierra Leone (25 June 2014)
Bubonic plague bacteria
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Ebola spreads through contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids
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