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\f0\b\fs30 \cf0 \cb2 BY LIZZI RINEHART \f1\b0\fs24 \
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\f0\fs30 \cf0 In a story that sounds straight out of the middle ages, a 7-year-old girl
from Denver contracted and survived the bubonic plague. Here\'92s {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://www.hlntv.com/"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 HLN}}.
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\f0\b\fs30 \cf0 \'93Sierra got out of the hospital. Her parents were terrified she might
not make it. They think she got the disease from fleas.\'94
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\f0\fs30 \cf0 Sierra explained what she thinks happened to {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.9news.com/news/article/288543/222/7-year-old-bubonic-plague-victim-happy-to-be-home"}}{\fldrslt
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\f0\b\fs30 \cf0 \'93I think, my sweater was lying by some fleas, and then mom think the
fleas jumped to the sweater and then mom tied it around my waist.\'94
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\f0\fs30 \cf0 Sierra told USA Today her sweater was near a dead squirrel, and that\'92s where
she thinks the fleas were hanging out before jumping onto her clothes.
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\f0\fs30 The 7-year-old survivor headed home on Wednesday, well, {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/12/colorado-girl-visits-zoo-after-surviving-bubonic-plague/57760394/1"}}{\fldrslt \cf4 after she visited the zoo}} and Ronald
McDonald House of course. \f1\fs24 \
\f0\fs30 According to themiddleages.net, an estimated 25 million people, or one third
of Europe\'92s population, died of the bubonic plague during the middle ages.
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\f0\fs30 Though there is no vaccine for it, {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.cdc.gov/plague/diagnosis/index.html"}}{\fldrslt
\cf4 the CDC says}} that the disease is treatable with common antibiotics.}