~ ETHKA-THM-P-OT-FH-Y-IHRWP-PI-TMP-T-S/F/N-C ~ Estimated To Have Killed Around – Two Hundred Million – People – Over The – Fourteen Hundred – Years – It Has Ravaged Worldwide Populations – Primarily In – Three Major Pandemics – The – Sixth / Fourteenth / Nineteenth – Centuries

~ TFOTP-KAT-POJ-SI-541-A-H-ESW-BIEI-755-IITTHOIA-TRISANWU ~ The First Of These Pandemics – Known As The – Plague Of Justinian – Started In – 541 – And – Had – Eighteen Successive Waves – Before It Ended In – 755 – It Is Thought To Have Originated In Africa – The Reasons It Stopped Are Not Well Understood

~ TSP-OOTMCPE-BI-CA-A-R-E-I-1347-IL-OAO-FN-FHY-TDIT-1830S-TFWOTSP-WLF-1347-1353-IWWTOAT-BD-ATTWNUATT-DTFW-DPTAC-A-S-AMA-HOTPOE-WWO ~ The Second Plague – One Of The Most Catastrophic Pandemics Ever – Began In – Central Asia – And – Reached – Europe – In – 1347 – It Lasted – On And Off – For Nearly – Five Hundred Years – Then Disappeared In The – 1830s – The First Wave Of The Second Plague – Which Lasted From – 1347 – 1353 – Is What We Think Of As The – Black Death – Although The Term Was Not Used At The Time – During This First Wave – Densely Packed Towns And Cities – And – Substantial Poverty – As Much As – Half Of The Population Of Europe – Was Wiped Out

~ F-I-1870-T-TO-LI-I-KAT-‘MP’-TECB-TAFM-D ~ Finally – In – 1870 – The – Third Occurrence – Largely In – India – Known As The – “Modern Plague” – The Epidemic Caused Between – Thirteen And Fifteen Million – Deaths

~ OOTCOPB-1900-2016-LAHAOETWA ~ Over One Thousand Case Of Plague Between – 1900 – 2016 – Largely Among Hunters And Others Exposed To Wild Animals

~ WDNRETOIAAPA;WJCIA-Y-I-A-ICBCIASFW-SOT ~ We Do Not Really Even Think Of It As A Plague Anymore; We Just Call It A – Yersinia – Infection – And – It Can Be Cured In A Straightforward Fashion With – Streptomycin Or Tetracycline