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Health chiefs in Oregan’s Deschutes County, say the individual probably caught the illness through close contact with their infected moggy and is now being treated for the potentially deadly condition.

Just miles from a busy tourist spot in Venice, Italy, sits "Plague Island" - and you are likely to come across one of thousands of unmarked graves if you pay a visit

The Black Death was one of the bleakest moments of European history, claiming the lives of hundreds of millions, and now experts fear it could be making a comeback