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Can Freezing Temperatures Kill the Plague? The Chilling Truth Behind Yersinia pestis Survival and Its Lethal Mutations

The Black Death remains one of the darkest chapters in human history, wiping out tens of millions across Eurasia in the fourteenth century. While commonly referred to colloquially as a “plague virus,” the lethal pathogen responsible for bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plague is actually a Gram-negative bacterium known scientifically as …

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