Bubonic Plague Case 2024. The bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people in europe in the 14th century — gaining the grim label the black death. A person in deschutes county, oregon, has been diagnosed with a case of bubonic plague, making them the state’s first confirmed case of this rare bacterial infection.
A confirmed case of human bubonic plague in oregon raised fears over a resurgence of the infamous contagion that wiped out millions in the middle ages. The disease—once known as the “black death”—killed at least 50 million people in.