Black Death That Killed Half Of Europe Reappears In California

The "Black Death" was an epidemic that killed more than 50-million people globally between 1346 and 1353 - half the population of Europe at the time. Unsettling news comes from California, where officials announced that a person has tested positive for the infectious disease after returning from a camping trip in the South Lake Tahoe area. While the news may be worrisome to the pandemic-weary among us, cases of the disease are extremely rare; each year, an average of seven human plague cases are reported in the US. Also, the CDC states, the world has changed, medicine has advanced, and people are generally much more hygienic than they were 700 years ago....so the chances of the "Black Death" making a serious comeback are almost nil.