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The bodies of several victims were buried in 'plague pits' near to where they had died, on Midsummer Common in Cambridge and some were buried on neighbouring Jesus Green

Health chiefs in Oregan’s Deschutes County, say the individual probably caught the illness through close contact with their infected moggy and is now being treated for the potentially deadly condition.

The Black Death was one of the bleakest moments of European history, claiming the lives of hundreds of millions, and now experts fear it could be making a comeback