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[–] Archangel1313 -1 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

WTF is "plague"? That's like saying they died from "disease".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yersinia pestis.

Black Death.

Comes in 3 flavors: Bubonic, Septicemic, Pneumonic.

THE PLAGUE

(Editing to add, because I checked, NOT what killed Gene Hackman and his wife, that was another rodent sickness, hantavirus.)

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