Plague outbreak in Peru

Really? The bubonic Plague in 2010?
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Aug 02, 2010
Peru Health Minister Oscar Ugarte says authorities are screening sugar and fish meal exports from the Ascope province, located about 325 miles (520 kms) northwest of Lima. Popular Chicama beach isn't far away.

An outbreak of plague has killed a 14-year-old boy and infected at least 31 people in a northern coastal province.

Ugarte says the boy, who had Down syndrome, died of bubonic plague July 26.
He said Monday that most of the infections are bubonic plague, with four cases of pneumonic plague. The former is transmitted by flea bites, the latter by airborne contagion. The disease is curable if treated early with antibiotics.