“You get a thick, black bump on the skin.” American gets the plague from his cat: should we also worry in Belgium?

A man in the US state of Oregon has been infected with the plague. He probably got the disease from his cat. Striking, because the ‘Black Death’ has been eradicated in most Western countries for decades. How can you catch it today? And what are the chances that you will become infected in Belgium? We asked the five most important questions to infectious disease specialist Steven Van Den Broucke. “There is no proper vaccine.”

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