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Firefighters in Honolulu, Hawaii, burn the houses on either side of a plague victim's home in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease in the early 1900s. Plague continues to thrive today; the World Health Organization reports 1,000 to 3,000 new cases of the disease every year. Photograph by USA National Library of Medicine/Science Photo Library