The words bubonic plague may sound like something from the Middle Ages but it was reported recently that a teenager in Kyrgyzstan had died of the disease - the first case in the country for 30 years.

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New research has finally established the cause of a plague outbreak in Glasgow almost 120 years ago. A team at the University of Oslo said rats were wrongly blamed and the real culprits were humans.

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The words bubonic plague may sound like something from the Middle Ages but it was reported recently that a teenager in Kyrgyzstan had died of the disease - the first case in the country for 30 years.