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Sierra Jane Downing, a 7-year-old Colorado girl, just survived a battle with a deadly disease that is extremely rare these days, but once wiped out more than a third of medieval Europe: The bubonic plague, or Black Death.. The girl was saved by a quick-thinking doctor at Denver's Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.
Scanning electron micrograph of Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague, on proventricular spines of a Xenopsylla cheopis flea. NIAID. Yersinia pestis (sometimes spelled Yersina) is the name of the bacteria that causes the bubonic plague.. pestis is primarily the cause of disease in a wide variety of rodents, including marmots, ground squirrels, gerbils, and prairie dogs, and, most famously, rats, specifically the black rat (Rattus rattus) (and almost certainly not the brown rat (R. norvegicus), despite what you might have heard).