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To: Just4Him
bubonic plague....a Bacterial infection.

penicillin, Cipro, most any antibiotic can kill it....

6 posted on 10/13/2011 4:05:00 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

> bubonic plague....a Bacterial infection.
> penicillin, Cipro, most any antibiotic can kill it....

The antibiotic of choice for bubonic plague (yersinia pestis) is streptomycin. I know this because that’s what I was given in late 1970 when I had plague.


9 posted on 10/13/2011 4:20:33 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Defeat Obama. End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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