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Article: Pneumonic plague death.(Global diseases)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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* Pneumonic plague death. On Nov. 2, 2007, Eric York, a 37-year-old biologist at Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park, was found dead of the pneumonic plague--the disease that decimated Europe's population in the Middle Ages. This highly fatal disease has a death rate as high as 50%, even with treatment. USA Today reported that York found a dead female mountain lion whose collar had sent out a mortality signal on Oct. 25. She bore no signs of trauma other than blood pooled around her nose. Determined to learn why she died and lacking a forensics lab at the park, York performed the postmortem in his garage. Scientists speculate that when York cut into the lion, he must have ...