Searching For a Vaccine For the Plague
The scourge of the Middle Ages survives
This story from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is published exclusively at Newsweek.
The plague is best known for wiping out as much as a third of Europe’s population during the Black Death pandemic of the 14th century, but it’s not entirely a thing of the past. It’s enough of a present-day threat — either as a potential bioterrorism weapon or because some strains are now antibiotic resistant — that scientists are trying to develop a
