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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Assistant Editors-In-Chief: Esther Lee, M.A.

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Yersinia pestis infection is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. Human Yersinia pestis infection takes three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and the notorious bubonic plagues.All three forms are widely believed to have been responsible for a number of high-mortality epidemics throughout human history, including the Plague of Justinian in 542 and the Black Death that accounted for the death of at least one-third of the European population between 1347 and 1353. It has now been shown conclusively that these plagues originated in rodent populations in China.