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Photo Gallery: Plague
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Photo: Microscopic view of a rat flea
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A flea clings to rat fur in this colored scanning electron micrograph. As carriers of plague, fleas have claimed more victims than all the wars ever fought.
Photograph by Dr. Tony Brain/Science Photo Library

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