Yosemite National Park just shut down two campgrounds due to the plague. Should you be worried?
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National Park Service Public Health Advisory: http://www.nps.gov/public_health/info...

The CDC on Plague:
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/plague/fa...
http://www.cdc.gov/plague/faq/

WHO on Plague: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsh...

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Host, Producer, Editor
Anna Rothschild

Writers
Elizabeth Preston and Anna Rothschild

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Sam Stulin

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Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California, USA
Wikimedia Commons/Heiko von Raußendorff

The black death. Watercolour by Monro S. Orr.
Wellcome Images/Munro Scott Orr

Danse macabre by Michael Wolgemut
Wikimedia Commons/Michael Wolgemut

Yersinia pestis fluorescent
Wikimedia Commons/CDC

CA Ground Squirrel on rock
Wikimedia Commons/Howcheng

Xenopsylla chepsis (oriental rat flea)
Wikimedia Commons/CDC
Plague -buboes
Wikimedia Commons/CDC
Acral gangrene due to plague
Wikimedia Commons/CDC

A rat leaving a ship via the mooring rope, thus spreading the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-Wellcome Images/ A.L. Tarter

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Cockroaches
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Jacob’s Ladder 007
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MouthPop
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